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Habit # 7—Continually Act to Influence the Future

In: Improving Project Performance

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  • Jerry L. Wellman

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Eleanor Roosevelt and Anais Nin were opposites in many ways, certainly in their worldviews: in one we shape our future; and in the other our environment shapes our future and us. Geneticists and neurobiologists ask to what extent many of our individual preferences and emotions are genetic predispositions. So far the answers are elusive, but it may just be that we each have a genetic “set point,” a preferential spot on the emotional stability spectrum, the happiness and contentment spectrum, and even the fatalism spectrum, where we prefer to dwell. Events may knock us off that preferred set point from time to time, but we seem to quickly find our way back to where we are predisposed to be. Whether it is influenced by genetics or experiences or both, our predisposition has little to do with whether our actions can in fact influence the future, but it does influence how we choose to respond to challenges, whether we decide to take action or instead ride along with the winds of fate.

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  • Jerry L. Wellman, 2011. "Habit # 7—Continually Act to Influence the Future," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Improving Project Performance, chapter 0, pages 261-281, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-51237-6_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-51237-6_8
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