MYTH 4
Let your goals power you towards success!
I must have read Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury’s classic tale to my children a hundred times when they were little and yet they never seemed to tire of it: ‘We’re going on a bear hunt ... We’re going to catch a big one ...’. If ever there was a celebration of the motivational power of a clear-cut objective this story is it. No matter how big the obstacles they encounter, the fictional family’s clarity of purpose drives them relentlessly forwards towards the fulfilment of their quest. Can’t go over it? Can’t go under it? No matter: they’ll just go through it. Until, that is, they encounter the bear they have been searching for. Suddenly, catching the bear no longer seems quite as desirable ...
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