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Caroline Adams Miller

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1251 total appearances

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Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

Every CEO I've ever worked with has not done a decision hygiene worksheet before. They've never analyzed the quality of their decisions for particularly what Daniel Kahneman talks about, noise. which, and he died earlier this year, he said, noise is a much bigger problem and costs businesses much more money than bias.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

Every CEO I've ever worked with has not done a decision hygiene worksheet before. They've never analyzed the quality of their decisions for particularly what Daniel Kahneman talks about, noise. which, and he died earlier this year, he said, noise is a much bigger problem and costs businesses much more money than bias.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

Every CEO I've ever worked with has not done a decision hygiene worksheet before. They've never analyzed the quality of their decisions for particularly what Daniel Kahneman talks about, noise. which, and he died earlier this year, he said, noise is a much bigger problem and costs businesses much more money than bias.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

And he spent a lot of his life talking about bias, but he said, no, as I go through this noise research, noise is the biggest problem in our judgment. You got to do that. So decision-making and then grit, what do I need to do? Do I have to up my self-talk? Do I have to learn how to change the channel in my brain when I want to be a When I want to quit, do I have to build up my willpower?

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

And he spent a lot of his life talking about bias, but he said, no, as I go through this noise research, noise is the biggest problem in our judgment. You got to do that. So decision-making and then grit, what do I need to do? Do I have to up my self-talk? Do I have to learn how to change the channel in my brain when I want to be a When I want to quit, do I have to build up my willpower?

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

And he spent a lot of his life talking about bias, but he said, no, as I go through this noise research, noise is the biggest problem in our judgment. You got to do that. So decision-making and then grit, what do I need to do? Do I have to up my self-talk? Do I have to learn how to change the channel in my brain when I want to be a When I want to quit, do I have to build up my willpower?

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

And then excellence. What are those challenging and specific standards that you need to set before that Locke and Latham talk about? You skip any of those steps, it's going to be like stages of change. What Norcross and Prochaska and all found is if you skip any of those stages, you're doomed. You got to go back. You're going to have to go back to contemplation. So you can't skip them.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

And then excellence. What are those challenging and specific standards that you need to set before that Locke and Latham talk about? You skip any of those steps, it's going to be like stages of change. What Norcross and Prochaska and all found is if you skip any of those stages, you're doomed. You got to go back. You're going to have to go back to contemplation. So you can't skip them.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

And then excellence. What are those challenging and specific standards that you need to set before that Locke and Latham talk about? You skip any of those steps, it's going to be like stages of change. What Norcross and Prochaska and all found is if you skip any of those stages, you're doomed. You got to go back. You're going to have to go back to contemplation. So you can't skip them.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

And you can't do it with my bridge methodology either. And I call it goals gone wild in my book. When you mix up learning and performance goals, you can't skip the learning steps. You can't. Because if you do, you're going to cheat, you're going to lie, you're going to steal. And in the worst cases, people will lose their lives. So do the work.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

And you can't do it with my bridge methodology either. And I call it goals gone wild in my book. When you mix up learning and performance goals, you can't skip the learning steps. You can't. Because if you do, you're going to cheat, you're going to lie, you're going to steal. And in the worst cases, people will lose their lives. So do the work.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

And you can't do it with my bridge methodology either. And I call it goals gone wild in my book. When you mix up learning and performance goals, you can't skip the learning steps. You can't. Because if you do, you're going to cheat, you're going to lie, you're going to steal. And in the worst cases, people will lose their lives. So do the work.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

And I think we became such a quick fix society that told our kids how great they were before they did anything. Even if they didn't do anything, we've got great inflation and comfort animals and Everyone's a valedictorian. Some classes have like 400 valedictorians.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

And I think we became such a quick fix society that told our kids how great they were before they did anything. Even if they didn't do anything, we've got great inflation and comfort animals and Everyone's a valedictorian. Some classes have like 400 valedictorians.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

And I think we became such a quick fix society that told our kids how great they were before they did anything. Even if they didn't do anything, we've got great inflation and comfort animals and Everyone's a valedictorian. Some classes have like 400 valedictorians.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

I mean, we decided in a very misguided way to the self-esteem parenting movement, to take all difficulties out of our children's lives. We bubble wrap the generation. And as a result, they learned because of the adults in their lives. And so it's all on the adults. they learned that you didn't have to do much to be called a winner.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

I mean, we decided in a very misguided way to the self-esteem parenting movement, to take all difficulties out of our children's lives. We bubble wrap the generation. And as a result, they learned because of the adults in their lives. And so it's all on the adults. they learned that you didn't have to do much to be called a winner.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

I mean, we decided in a very misguided way to the self-esteem parenting movement, to take all difficulties out of our children's lives. We bubble wrap the generation. And as a result, they learned because of the adults in their lives. And so it's all on the adults. they learned that you didn't have to do much to be called a winner.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

And so what I'm trying to do in my most recent books is a call to develop the grit and the ability to take the hard steps. to get this sweetness at the end of doing hard things. In Chinese, it's called shiku, eating bitter, so that you do hard things. So at the end of the harvest, the fruit is sweet. You do the work. So I just want people to learn that, and this is what society values, by the way.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caroline Adams Miller on the Keys to Achieving Big Goals | EP 548

And so what I'm trying to do in my most recent books is a call to develop the grit and the ability to take the hard steps. to get this sweetness at the end of doing hard things. In Chinese, it's called shiku, eating bitter, so that you do hard things. So at the end of the harvest, the fruit is sweet. You do the work. So I just want people to learn that, and this is what society values, by the way.