Scientific Definition
Vivid images of who we could become drive present-day effort.
Plain-English Definition
Vivid images of who we could become drive present-day effort.
Feynman Explanation
Hope and dread are both possible selves, doing the same job.
Core Principle
Vivid images of who we could become drive present-day effort.
Mechanisms
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Talent development as possible-self construction.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Hope and dread are both possible selves, doing the same job.
Examples
- Career programs that show 'people three steps ahead of you' outperform abstract pathways.
- Talent development as possible-self construction.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Make the next-rung self visible, plural, and reachable.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Make the next-rung self visible, plural, and reachable.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
How will I feel about this in 10 minutes / 10 months / 10 years?
Basics first (health/finances), then depth (mastery/impact), then altruism (widening circle).
A group decides on a course of action that nobody actually wants, because everyone assumes others prefer it.
Inattention or forgetfulness caused by low attention, hyperfocus, or distraction.
Deriving general rules from specific examples; the leap from instance to concept.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
We attribute our own actions to situations but others' actions to their character.
Your capacity to learn, unlearn, and relearn faster than the environment changes.
The brain evolved to reason adaptively, not always truthfully, to reduce the cost of errors.
A problem whose solution requires people to change their values, beliefs, or habits — not just apply expertise.
We solve problems by adding, even when subtracting would be better.
Holding a different — and correct — set of tools than everyone else.