Delmore Effect
The observation that people tend to paradoxically provide more articulate and explicit goals for lower priority areas of their lives than the most important and centered.
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Origin
Purportedly developed by Paul Whitmore in 2000 as part of their PhD thesis, and named after the 20th-century poet, Delmore Schwartz who was unable to continue success that he found earlier in his career.