This is a post in progress, just to let you know that there are some findings about psychology and success.
Here, Phil Zimbardo writes this great paper when he is APA President in 2004: “Does Psychology Make a Significant Difference in Our Lives?” (this is also a very interesting history of psychology). Also, here is the site that was born from this paper: www.psychologymatters.org, which illustrates in which fields psychology has made some significant inroads and found results that people can and do implement (I like the post here on multitasking).
And here is a nice 2002 Forbes article on the “Psychology of Success”.
I’ll be attending a class at UPenn for the first time called “The Psychology of Success.” How appropriate for this post. I will let you know how it is.