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Carly Vivian is a career reinvention strategist who spent 30 years at the table when Fortune 50 organizations made their biggest calls - mergers, transformations, and leadership transitions at a combined $100B scale. She now helps senior executives, post-exit founders, and athletes leaving sport decode what built their First Act and architect a deliberate Second Act. Her work runs on the Discover, Design, Develop methodology, which also anchors her book in progress, Lightning Strikes Twice. Alongside the platform she keeps a separate, referral-based executive coaching practice.

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Attribution Theory: Interpreting Successes and Failures

Attribution Theory is a psychological framework explaining how individuals interpret their successes and failures through four factors: ability, effort, task difficulty, and luck. It draws on Locus of Control, Stability, and Controllability to explore how self-perception shapes motivation, persistence, and resilience in educational contexts.

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Summary

Attribution Theory is a psychological framework explaining how individuals interpret their successes and failures through four factors: ability, effort, task difficulty, and luck. It draws on Locus of Control, Stability, and Controllability to explore how self-perception shapes motivation, persistence, and resilience in educational contexts.

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attribution-theory · educational-psychology · locus-of-control · motivation · self-perception · resilience · learning

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Thompson, Sherry (person, 0.99) · Attribution Theory (concept, 0.99) · Locus of Control (concept, 0.97) · Stability (concept, 0.85) · Controllability (concept, 0.85) · Motivation Theory (concept, 0.9) · Expectancy Theory (concept, 0.88) · Educational Psychology (concept, 0.95)

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reference · language en · status final

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claude-sonnet-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 3 Aug 2026