Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2022/Giving up goals

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Hey! I was also really interested in this topic and did a bit of personal reading, I thought I would give you a few resources that really got to the root of why people give up goals.

The Struggle of Giving Up Personal Goals

This one was particularly interesting as it looks into the positive sides of giving up goals:

Giving Up on Unattainable Goals: Benefits for Health?

Anyways, I have put the articles on the references section of your text hope this gives you a good start :)

--U3202984 (discuss • contribs) 11:59, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

Really great topic it would be super interesting to find the background of professional athletes and the reason they give up on lifelong goals u3194909

Heading casing

FYI, the recommended Wikiversity heading style uses sentence casing. For example: Self-determination theory rather than Self-Determination Theory Here's an example chapter with correct heading casing: Growth mindset development -- Jtneill - Talk - c 23:25, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

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Hi ! Love this topic and look forward to reading the completed chapter.

I wonder if you could incorporate learned helplessness into the "What is giving up?" subheading and whether there might be a correlation between the aspects of learned helpless (cognitive, emotional and motivational) and giving up. Here is Seligman's original theory on learned helplessness in case you are interested in using this suggestion :)

https://axelkra.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/document.pdf

Good Luck !! U3210431 (discuss • contribs) 06:35, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

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