achievement motivation

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights. We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and the amount of ground that we can gain. When opportunity doesn't knock, there are ways to to build a door. Hidden Potential offers a new framework for reaching aspirations and exceeding expectations. Realizing potential isn't about being a workaholic or a perfectionist. What matters most is not how hard we work, but how well we learn. It's not about being a genius-growth depends more on developing character skills than cognitive skills. The character skills that propel progress include the proactivity to absorb and adapt to new information, the courage to embrace discomfort, and the determination to find the beauty in imperfections. Mastering those skills doesn't require us to find the one perfect mentor or expert coach to guide us. Often we just need to borrow a compass to begin charting our own path. And we can clear the path for more people by building better systems of opportunity in our schools, teams, and workplaces. Many writers have chronicled the habits of superstars who accomplish great things. This book breaks new ground by revealing how anyone can rise to achieve greater things. The true measure of your potential isn't the height of the peak you reach, but how far you climb to get there"--.

"Explores academic anxiety and how it affects people both mentally and physically, examining the causes and symptoms of academic anxiety as well as strategies to overcome it"--Provided by publisher.

"[The author] breaks down the processes by which elite performers accomplish seemingly impossible goals and teaches us how we, too, can do what we thought was out of our reach, turning the art of impossible into possibility for all who want to up their game"--Provided by publisher.

Presents the text of a song about making mistakes, trying again, learning new things, and challenging ourselves.

Presents ten essays focusing on building emotional strength and resilience and achieving high performance.

"When it comes to setting and meeting goals, we are often susceptibleto perceptual illusions: We think we are closer or further away depending on our mindset, and we might handicap ourselves by looking only at the big picture or too long at the fine detail. But as . . . [the author] explains in [this book] there is . . . power in these misperceptions--if we know how to use them to our advantage. Drawing on her own unique research and cutting-edge discoveries in vision science, cognitive research, and motivational psychology, [she] gives readers an . . . account of the perceptual habits, routines, and practices that successful people use to set and meet their ambitions. Through case studies of entrepreneurs, athletes, artists, and celebrities--as well as her own . . . experience of trying to set and reach a goal--she brings four . . . visual tactics to life"--Provided by publisher.

Presents the text of a song about making mistakes, trying again, learning new things, and challenging ourselves.

"Every big dream begins with a dreamer . . . what dreams will you dream? Encourage little ones to dream big in this celebration of all the ways you can dream, achieve, and succeed! A . . . homage to fifteen female trailblazers who dared to dream big!"--Back cover.

Offers high school students who do not want to pursue a traditional college education an overview of the choices they have after graduation, featuring interviews with dozens of students who choose an alternate track in life.

A collection of 26 short inspirational passages. Chapters include "Accepting the challenges", "Jealousy gets you nowhere" to "Zealously strive to achieve".