How do high-achieving students, productive employees, or top-notch athletes achieve success?
It is often not just a person’s ability that makes the difference between success and failure. But it is also their beliefs and behaviors that make them effective. How can we identify these adaptive beliefs and behaviors, and how can we harness this knowledge to help people succeed at their goals?
Our research aims to address questions like these at the heart of human motivation by:
(1) identifying the beliefs and behaviors that foster high performance and well-being,
(2) leveraging multiple methods (laboratory, survey, and field research) to empirically establish the processes through which they work, and
(3) designing scalable, psychologically precise interventions to promote the adoption of these beliefs and behaviors.
Recent Features
BBC Worklife
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.”
- Steve Jobs
“If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honour your calling. Everybody has one.”
- Oprah Winfrey
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These are some of the famous quotes of our generation's most successful entrepreneurs speaking about chasing one's passion. But, for those of us who have yet to find our passion, what can we do to achieve this passionate experience? What if we never find our passion? Can we develop passion towards our work?
Read the article by BBC Worklife featuring Dr. Patricia Chen and Dr. Paul O'Keefe from Yale-NUS to find out more!
Mothership.sg
Have you ever set a New Year's resolution and forgot about it soon after?
Ever wanted to know how you could have greater success in sticking to your New Year's resolutions?
Well, you've come to the right place!
Here is a video Dr. Patricia Chen made with Mothership.SG to teach you some tips on how to get more out of your New Year's resolutions!