100% agree but I'll add one more idea. Goal-setting in a discipline where you're a novice is likely to end in disaster. Goal-setting in an area where you are

100% agree but I'll add one more idea. Goal-setting in a discipline where you're a novice is likely to end in disaster. Goal-setting in an area where you are an expert is when this approach really works. Unfortunately, much of the industry actively discourages the emergence of real expertise as that makes an employee indispensable. Instead they prefer 1,000 generalists who can do an OK job in any area. I blame Google for starting this meme (and witness the quality of their applications as a testament to what this does to software). And which is ironic because all their moonshots require the very same narrow expertise they actively discourage from emerging in their own employees. And so they end up constantly hiring domain experts and buying companies with domain expertise rather than cultivate the careers of their 1 in 1000 applicants that have made the cut. Sigh...