Personal control: an important psychological resource in difficult times
A new study by Nguyen et al. (2020) looks at the extent to which a sense of personal control can protect people's well-being in difficult times.
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Working in solitude on very ambitious goals
New research suggests how people may work in solitude on very ambitious goals and feel good about it. Some famous artists and scientists from the past must have set extraordinary ambitious goals for themselves and must have worked for extremely long periods of time in solitude on their work and discoveries. For example, it is known that Isaac Newton, generally viewed as one of the greatest scientific geniuses of all time, who was highly productive as well, spend many years working in relative solitude. I have sometimes wondered how such people have managed to accomplish such things and to what extent they experienced gratification about their life style. I came across two articles by Thuy-vy Nguyen which give a clue about how some people are able to lead and bear such lives.