Curiosity Daily Podcast: How to Set the Right Goals (and Actually Achieve Them!)
Achieving goals can be difficult, but that may be because you're setting the wrong goals in the first place. That's why happiness expert and executive coach Stella Grizont returns to the Curiosity Podcast to discuss how to set the right goals and how to overcome the challenges of sticking to them.
February 13, 2018
Episode Show Notes:
More reading from Curiosity:
Additional resources discussed:
- The Vision Generator (free worksheet from Stella Grizont)
- Dopamine Functions | News-Medical.net
- Dopamine regulates the motivation to act, study shows | ScienceDaily
- Goal Progress and Happiness | Psychology Today
- A CONVERSATION WITH Daniel Kahneman; On Profit, Loss and the Mysteries of the Mind | The New York Times
- Overcoming an Aversion to Loss | The New York Times
- The Psychology of Sunk Cost | Ohio University
- WOOPAAH (Stella Grizont is Founder and CEO)
- @StellaGrizont on Twitter
- The Surprisingly Recent Time Period when Boys Wore Pink, Girls Wore Blue, and Both Wore Dresses | TodayIFoundOut.com
- No Girls Allowed | Polygon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Next Up
Investigate the Mind of a Shark on 'How to Train a Great White'
See how these apex predators actually think. Will they completely transform our understanding of their intelligence?
A Guide to Defending the Earth
Let’s say one day astronomers announce that our worst nightmare has come true: a large object is headed towards the Earth with a significant chance of impact. What do we do?
Sing Along to the Shark Week Song
Listen to the first official Shark Week song and catch all the action July 26 through August 1 on Discovery!
'My Strange Shark Addiction' Is Coming to Shark Week 2026
Meet the most shark-obsessed "fin-atics" around and take a plunge into their wild fascinations on "My Strange Shark Addiction." Learn all about the new special here!
Why We Know Nothing about Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Welcome to the era of precision cosmology…where we’ve managed to very precisely measure everything we don't know about the universe.
Scientists Watch as Stars Quake
The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has managed to watch stars tremble, their light subtly changing as starquakes ripple through their surfaces. Which is pretty cool, because Gaia wasn’t even designed to do it.
Watch Ken Jeong & Rei Ami Make a Splash on 'K-Pop Shark Heroes'
They'll use the power of K-Pop to change the way we view sharks forever!
An Astronomical Review of “Don’t Look Up”
In our annual New Year’s family tradition of struggling to stay awake until midnight, we decided to watch “Don’t Look Up,” the Adam McKay satire starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, and other fabulously good-looking people.
Gold Rush Sweeps
The following Promotion is intended for the 50 United States and D.C. only and will be construed and evaluated according to United States laws. Do not proceed in this site if you are not a legal resident of the 50 United States or D.C., and 21 years or older, as of Promotion start date.