SUMMARY Trying is a testament to the powers of failure and how much it can teach us and help us grow. It’s the story of a boy who tries to become a sculptor. He tries over and over to sculpt, but he …

Our arguments will often rely on intuitive judgments about trying. As we elicit these judgments, it will be important to attend to diferent uses of the word ‘try’. So, in this preliminary section, which also serves …

wu wei — trying or not trying? Dr. Slingerland recommends a combination. Conscious effort is necessary to learn a skill, and the Confucian emphasis on following rituals is in accord with psychological …

It's the difference between trying and training. In similar fashion, we oftentimes approach the spiritual life with the mindset that if we just try harder, we can be successful.

We report the findings and conclude with a discussionoftheirimplicationsformarketersaswellassug-gestions for future research.

This result strongly suggests that the basic and fundamental element on the mental side of action is intention and that trying to act is nothing more nor less than intending to act and taking some steps.

be trying to do something. From this it emerges that it is no simple thing to have evidence that a person is really trying to do something he failed to do. To have such evidence we need to have evidence …