History
Research has indicated that general goal intentions (e.g., "I strongly intend to reach X") only explain 20-30% of the variance of behavioral change. After all, past behavior still tend to be a better predictor for people's future behavior compared to goal intentions (Gollwitzer,1999).
Various variables determine the success of goal attainment such as the framing of goal setting. For example, goals that are set in a challenging, specific way lead to greater success than goals that are set in a challenging but vague way (Locke&Latham, 1990). On the basis of these findings, the strategy of implementation intentions has been developed.
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“The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.”
—Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)
“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)