Long-term Focus

Maintaining a long-term focus is essential for tasks like research, which advance slowly and lack immediate feedback.¹

A study from 2012 concludes that self-regulation (the ability to control your emotions and impulses) is the most important factor to achieve long-term goal. ²

Footnotes

1. ‘How to Develop Long-Term Focus’ note ↩

2. Masters of the long haul: Pursuing long‐term work goals - Bateman - 2012 - Journal of Organizational Behavior - Wiley Online Library ↩