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Goals are the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.
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If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
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…if successful and unsuccessful people share the same goals, then the goal cannot be what differentiates the winners from the losers.
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When all of your hard work is focused on a particular goal, what is left to push you forward after you achieve it?
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Every goal is doomed to fail if it goes against the grain of human nature.
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As a general rule, the more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long-term goals.
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Your goal is to iterate until you feel confident that you have identified a target customer with an underserved customer need that you believe you can address.
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Goals work. The academic literature shows that by helping us tune out distractions, goals can get us to try harder, work longer, and achieve more.
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Goals that people set for themselves and that are devoted to attaining master are usually healthy. But goals imposed by others… can sometimes have dangerous side effects.
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Like all extrinsic motivators, goals narrow our focus. That’s one reason they can be effective; they concentrate the mind. But as we’ve seen, a narrowed focus exacts a cost.
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