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Can control over achievement anxiety really be that simple, that straightforward-change your goals and you change your anxiety? Well, no, for two reasons. First, changing the way you think is not as easy as it might first sound. Thoughts often have deep roots. Second, achievement situations themselves generate some anxiety-time deadlines, presence of an audience, task difficulty, and so on. And, our own dispositional neuroticism (emotional instability) directly contributes to felt anxiety.