News Finding: You end up splitting your focus over many tasks, losing focus, lowering the quality of your work and taking longer to hit your goals.
Paper Finding: Such expectations evidently stem from selfperceptions about ability on the task in question .
News Context: Actually, the most successful people are very patient and avoid juggling many things. You end up splitting your focus over many tasks, losing focus, lowering the quality of your work and taking longer to hit your goals. The 8 percent of people who nail down their goals are smart enough to work on several smaller chunks to complete a big goal.
Paper Context: Other things being equal, individuals are more likely to accept or choose a given goal when they have high rather than low expectations of reaching it . Such expectations evidently stem from selfperceptions about ability on the task in question . Presumably these perceptions are inferences from past performance.