The Right Way to Set Goals

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🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Learn about how the coronavirus pandemic may have changed Americans’ attitudes about the poor; how you can relieve stress by learning something new; and a trick for setting goals to help you achieve what you want.

COVID-19 may have changed Americans’ attitudes about the poor by Steffie Drucker

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Wiwad, D., Mercier, B., Piff, P. K., Shariff, A., & Aknin, L. B. (2021). Recognizing the Impact of COVID-19 on the Poor Alters Attitudes Towards Poverty and Inequality. Journal of experimental social psychology, 93, 104083. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104083
Piff, P. K., Wiwad, D., Robinson, A. R., Aknin, L. B., Mercier, B., & Shariff, A. (2020). Shifting attributions for poverty motivates opposition to inequality and enhances egalitarianism. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(5), 496-505. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0835-8
COVID-19, Generosity and Gender. (2020). COVID-19, Generosity and Gender. Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. https://philanthropy.iupui.edu/institutes/womens-philanthropy-institute/research/covid.html
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To Relieve Stress, Try Taking a Learning Break by Ashley Hamer

Pietrangelo, A. (2017, June 5). The Effects of Stress on Your Body. Healthline; Healthline Media. https://www.healthline.com/health/stress/effects-on-body
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To Cope with Stress, Try Learning Something New. (2018, September 4). Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2018/09/to-cope-with-stress-try-learning-something-new
Zhang, C., Mayer, D. M., & Hwang, E. (2018). More is less: Learning but not relaxing buffers deviance under job stressors. Journal of Applied Psychology, 103(2), 123–136. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000264

Set S.M.A.R.T. Goals to Achieve the Things You Want by Joanie Faletto

SMART Goals: How to Make Your Goals Achievable. (2016). Mindtools.com. https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/smart-goals.htm
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0:00.0	Happy New Year! You're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with a brand new episode of Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.
0:08.0	I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:10.0	Today you learn about how the coronavirus pandemic may have changed Americans
0:14.4	attitudes about the poor, how you can relieve stress by learning something new,
0:18.8	and a trick for setting goals to help you achieve what you want.
0:22.2	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:25.0	I feel like a lot of us are pretty happy to put 20-20 behind us.
0:29.6	When we think of that year, we'll probably always think of the coronavirus pandemic which has
0:35.4	probably changed just for decades to come but not all of those changes are bad so
0:41.8	let's start the year with something to look forward to in 2021. A recent
0:46.4	study says that the pandemic may have made Americans more sympathetic when it comes to the poor.
0:53.2	This hasn't been the case historically.
0:56.1	The American dream is all about how success and prosperity
1:00.2	are possible for all, as long as you work hard enough.
1:04.0	So it makes sense that a lot of Americans believe the opposite is also true.
1:09.0	As in, they think that if you don't have success in prosperity it must be because you're lazy.
1:15.8	One study found this attitude to be common in American participants as recently as 2019.
1:22.0	The good news though is that the researchers behind that study did find that people
1:26.1	cared more about inequality after spending just 10 minutes in a virtual simulation.
1:32.2	And then along came COVID-19.
1:35.4	Suddenly, it wasn't a simulation anymore.
1:38.4	Millions of people were experiencing real hardship.
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