2. Achievement

Descriptor: To accomplish something noteworthy and admirable in your work, education, or other areas of life.

Consciousness Raising Facts & Questions

The chart below shows the priority placed on the value Achievement since 2005.

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In 2022, men surveyed placed chose Achievement as their second highest priority value. In the same year, women did not even include Achievement in their Top 10 of priority values.

• Why mighty this be so?

To to be successful in achieving our goals we need the necessary skills to do what is needed to reach them. Also, our goals must be related to our values otherwise we will lack motivation to achieve them. 

• Do you have a clear set of goals?
• Are you clear what priority values you have which will motivate you to do what is necessary to achieve these goals?

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describes how it is important to continually follow a path, he calls "Flow", whereby we continually increase both our challenges and our skills, viz:

• Position A: If we stay here we achieve little.
• Position B: If we increase our skills and do not challenge ourselves in the process then we will become bored.
• Position C: If we take on ever more challenges without the requisite skills, we will become very anxious.
• Position D: If we continually increase our level of skills and the challenges we take on, we will be successful in achieving our goals. Csikszentmihalyi describes this as been in the state of flow.

This process is explained more fully in Mihaly's TED Talk...

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