Ambition : how we manage success and failure throughout our lives
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- ISBN: 0465091903 :
- ISBN: 9780465091904
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x, 205 p. ; 25 cm. - Publisher: [New York] : BasicBooks, c1992.
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-193) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: My Father's Windowbox -- I. The Range of Ambition. 1. Our Drive for Growth and Mastery. Human Goals. Competition and Selfishness. Culture and History. Women and Men. Individual Differences. 2. Looking for Just Manageable Difficulties. The Problem with Winning. Finding the Right Level. Beliefs about Our Capacities. Underloads and Overloads. Who Is Happy? -- II. Thinking About Losing and Winning. 3. Did We Win or Lose? What's Going on Here? Uncertain Outcomes. Who Owns the Truth? 4. Planning the Next Actions. Natural Optimism. Believing in Luck. Second Chances. 5. Can We Make the Change? The New Culture of Change. Rewriting Our Life Histories. The Myth of Life Stages. 6. How Free Are We to Act? Galleries of Witnesses. Internalized Standards. The Hunt for Legitimacy. Avoiding Comparisons -- III. Keeping Up the Challenge. 7. The Sequence of Transformation. After Losing. After Winning. How Fast Does Change Happen? 8. Changing Timetables. Social and Personal Timetables. Career Achievement. Early Climaxes and Late Bloomers. Speedups and Stretchouts. The Next Generation. 9. Changing Levels of Aspiration. Deciding How Much Is Enough. The Value of Second Place. Managing the Big Win. Scaling Down the Dream. 10. Changing Goals. Depth or Breadth. Families of Goals. The Emptiness of Success. Reaching the Top. Letting Go. The Elusive Midlife Crisis. Fire at Evening. |
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