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Why self-initiated goals are more effective than goals set for you by others? -- Because "felt necessity" is usually present in the former but often lacks in the later.

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ROBINSON, E. (1983). Metacognitive development. In S. Meadows (Ed.), DevelopingThinking: Approaches to Children's Cognitive Development. London: Methuen

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"One of the interesting characteristics of people is they not only behave, but can watch themselves behaving, and believe that they can exert a certain amount ofcontrol over how they behave..."

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"People are ... active agents who can be aware thatthings are or are not going as intended, who can deliberately optimize their performance, and who can learn from becoming aware of their mistakes. (Robinson,1983, p. 106)"

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The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it. — Goethe in Wilhelm Meister

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“the two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom. We may go further, and say that in the degree in which we are fortunate enough to get away from the one, we approach the other. Life presents, in fact, a more or less violent oscillation between the two.” - Schopenhauer

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The Sedona Method by Hale Dwoskin explains five-step process to release your emotions: https://t.co/3xosxHCfYb

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You’ll keep experiencing sadness, frustration, depression, or resentment, but hopefully, each time these occur, you’ll become wiser and wiser, remembering that this too, shall pass. - Thibaut Meurisse - Master Your Emotions

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

Everyone has weaknesses and they are generally revealed in the patterns of mistakes they make. The fastest path to success starts with knowing what your weaknesses are and staring hard at them. (Continued below)

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"A central claim of Cognitive Flexibility Theory is that revisiting the same material, at different times, in rearranged contexts, for different purposes, and from different conceptual perspectives is essential for attaining the goals of advanced knowledge acquisition." (p.65)

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#cognitiveflexibility
Spiro, R. J., Feltovich, P. J., Jacobson, M. J., & Caul on, R. L. (1992). Cognitive flexibility, constructivism, and hypertext: Random access instruction for advanced knowledge acquisition in ill-structured domains.

[Fei @gaofei9]

"to acquire contentive knowledge structures which can support flexible cognitive processing, flexible learning environments are required which permit the same items of knowledge to be presented and learned in a variety of different ways and for a variety of different purposes"