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: Moreover, no difference on a measure of goal acceptance was found.
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: As predicted, no significant differences in performance were found between the two goal setting groups. Moreover, no difference on a measure of goal acceptance was found. In the first experiment employees who participated in setting their goals on a test attained the same performance level as individuals who were assigned goals of the same difficulty level.