How to Be Awesome at Your Job

1015: The Science Behind Setting, and Achieving Your Biggest Goals with Caroline Miller


Listen Later

Caroline Miller shares the overlooked science that helps you pursue your most ambitious goals. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) The top goal-setting myths to abandon immediately 

2) The two types of goals and how to set them 

3) The BRIDGE methodology for effective goal-setting 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1015 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT CAROLINE — 

For over three decades, Caroline Adams Miller has been a pioneer with her groundbreaking work in the areas of the science of goal setting, grit, happiness, and success. She is recognized as one of the world’s leading positive psychology experts on this research and how it can be applied to one’s life and work for maximum transformation. 

She is the author of nine books, including My Name is Caroline, Getting Grit, Positively Caroline and Creating Your Best Life, which the "father of Positive Psychology," Dr. Martin Seligman, lauded in Flourish as "adding a major missing piece" to the world of goal setting. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University and attained one of the first 32 degrees in the world in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.

• Book: Big Goals: The Science of Setting Them, Achieving Them, and Creating Your Best Life 

• Book: Getting Grit: The Evidence-Based Approach to Cultivating Passion, Perseverance, and Purpose 

• Book site: BigGoalsBook.com 

• Child Mind Institute: ChildMind.org 

• Website: CarolineMiller.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass Sunstein 

• Book: Woman's Inhumanity to Woman by Phyllis Chessler 

• Study: “Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect” by Sonja Lyubomirsky, Laura King, Ed Diener 

• Survey: VIA's Character Strengths Survey 

• Tool: Perplexity 

• Tool: Google Notebook  


— THANK YOU SPONSORS! — 

• Lingoda. Visit try.lingoda.com/Awesome50 and save up to 50% off with their biggest sale of the year!

• Jenni KayneUse the code AWESOME15 to get 15% off your order!

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

How to Be Awesome at Your JobBy How to be Awesome at Your Job

  • 4.5
  • 4.5
  • 4.5
  • 4.5
  • 4.5

4.5

1,003 ratings


More shows like How to Be Awesome at Your Job

View all
HBR IdeaCast by Harvard Business Review

HBR IdeaCast

237 Listeners

Modern Mentor by QuickAndDirtyTips.com

Modern Mentor

696 Listeners

The Look & Sound of Leadership by Essential Communications - Tom Henschel

The Look & Sound of Leadership

1,139 Listeners

Coaching for Leaders by Dave Stachowiak

Coaching for Leaders

1,480 Listeners

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life by Erik Fisher

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life

844 Listeners

Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job by Mac Prichard

Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job

592 Listeners

Negotiate Anything by Kwame Christian Esq., M.A.

Negotiate Anything

625 Listeners

Radical Candor: Communication at Work by Kim Scott, Jason Rosoff & Amy Sandler

Radical Candor: Communication at Work

705 Listeners

Women at Work by Harvard Business Review

Women at Work

1,371 Listeners

Worklife with Adam Grant by TED

Worklife with Adam Grant

9,241 Listeners

Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence & Leadership Communication Style by Laura Camacho

Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence & Leadership Communication Style

72 Listeners

The Modern Manager by Mamie Kanfer Stewart

The Modern Manager

186 Listeners

The Anxious Achiever by Morra Aarons-Mele

The Anxious Achiever

574 Listeners

Coaching Real Leaders by Harvard Business Review / Muriel Wilkins

Coaching Real Leaders

591 Listeners

HBR On Leadership by Harvard Business Review

HBR On Leadership

131 Listeners