"Personal Project Pursuit" features Brian Little's personal projects analysis (PPA), a pioneering theory in motivational psychology. The internal and external dynamics of personal goals and the resulting positive affects of pursuing such projects ar

"Personal Project Pursuit" is the first book to feature Brian Little's highly respected personal projects analysis (PPA), one of the pioneering theories in contemporary personality and motivational psychology. The book examines both the internal and external dynamics of personal goals and projects and clearly demonstrates that human flourishing is enhanced when individuals are engaged in the pursuit of personal projects.
The book opens with the theory and methodologies of personal projects research. The historical perspective on the development of the two dominant research perspectives...

How does your personality shape your life and what, if anything, can you do about it?
Are you hardwired for happiness, or born to brood? Do you think you re in charge of your future, or do you surf the waves of unknowable fate? Would you be happier, or just less socially adept, if you were less concerned about what other people thought of you? And what about your Type A spouse: is he or she destined to have a heart attack, or just drive you to drink?
In the past few decades, new scientific research has transformed old ideas about the nature of human personality....