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  The Values Survey was developed based on my own experience working with high achievers and in consultation with the work and measures developed by:

  • Shalom Schwartz, Ph.D. (the world’s leading research expert on values).

  • Pierce Howard, Ph.D. and Jane Howard M.B.A. (from the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies).

  • Jeffrey Auerbach, Ph.D. (one of North America’s top executive coaches).

  • Russ Harris, M.D. (psychiatrist, best-selling author, and one of the world’s foremost providers of training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy).

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  See Angela Duckworth’s statement on the relationship between grit, self-control and the Basic Personality Tendency of Motivation/Self-Control (referred to as Conscientiousness) here: https://goo.gl/Gq7120

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  See the work of Kathleen Martin Ginis, Ph.D.: http://goo.gl/FJEH7p

  and Costas Karageorghis, Ph.D.: http://goo.gl/AwQQOx

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  For more detail on this, check out author Tony Schwartz’s website: http://theenergyproject.com/

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  See work by the Draugiem Group described here: https://goo.gl/1UUe1M

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  Newport (2016). Deep work: Rules for focused success in a distracted world: http://goo.gl/VHHHoH