◊ goal setting

pro setting goals

• SMART goals and whoever invented them
• 2015 📖 SuperBetter - The Power of Living Gamefully also really likes goals.
• ◊ deliberate practice relies on goals a lot
• ~ show the goal structure

contra setting goals:

• position often built around ~ build systems, not goals
  • point in 📖 Atomic Habits
• ~ everyone at any sports event has the goal to win
• 📝 Goals gone wild:
  • ~ people become complacent after meeting their goal
    • see also post-pellet pause when in the mood for a behavioristic reframe
  • ~ hard goals incentivize risk-taking (can of course also seen as pro)
  • ~ goals interfere with learning
• ~ 'do your best' may work better than goal setting
• ~ reaching goals is anticlimactic

how to

• ~ judge a goal by whether it causes action now
• > If you don’t know when you’re doing something, chances are you won’t do it.