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I disagree with this post, and think it's bad and incorrect advice for most people. Spending lots of time thinking about what you want, writing and rewriting ho
by lionhearted 16y ago
I disagree with this post, and think it's bad and incorrect advice for most people. Spending lots of time thinking about what you want, writing and rewriting how you could get there and the details, planning on how to get there, etc, etc, etc - much of it is fruitless, but eventually you build some large overarching themes for what you want for your life.
At that point, yes, you could abandon formal goal setting and still do things mostly correctly. But it's terrible advice for most people.
Then some of it is wrong:
> The idea of having concrete, achievable goals seem to be deeply ingrained in our culture.
Something silly like 90% of people don't have concrete, achievable goals. If you don't, I'd strongly encourage you to start thinking about what you want, and writing it down, and occasionally revisiting/rewriting what you want. It'll do wonders for you.
Yes, you won't follow the plan to the letter, but you will live a more meaningful life and get more of what you want.
Eisenhower quote: "Plans are useless, but planning is invaluable."
- GHFigs 16y agoSpending lots of time thinking about what you want Trouble is, my ultimate goal in life is to do this as little as possible.
- lawn 16y agoThen you, unlike most people, already know what you want. If that's truly your ultimate goal that is.
- mortenjorck 16y agoIt's an enviable state. My goals usually change too often to get very far with any particular one.
- alexitosrv 16y agoseriously?
- mechanical_fish 16y agoSomething silly like 90% of people don't have concrete, achievable goals. This is true. And much of the remaining ten percent have the goal of making the other ninety percent feel ashamed of that. ;)
- stavrianos 16y agoI skeptical of this. For one, a goodly chunk of those making people feel ashamed of not having goals are probably in the no-goals demographic themselves. Most of the ten probably have better things to do.