Learning Goals Alleviate Depression
▲ Learning Goals v Self Worth Goals ▼
Eric Barker:
(d) A key to alleviating depression is fostering a shift from self-worth goals to learning goals and from the beliefs underlying self-worth goals to the opposite beliefs.
Points (a), (b) and (c) are just as interesting.
It's all about context, man.
For more discussion, see: Growth Needs Context.
[Much of my writing focuses on our three primary domains of drive and motivation - Achievement, Social Relationships, Knowledge - ASK. This quote is about Knowledge.]








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