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…the pass-fail and fixed nature of goals causes us to just keep on toward the finish line, even when the finish line is no longer what we should be running toward.
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Inflexible goals aren’t a good fit for a flexible world.
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Adding a few well-thought-out unlesses to our goals will help us achieve the flexibility that we’re seeking, be more responsive to the changing landscape, and reduce escalation of commitment to losing causes.
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When you set a goal, creating a list of kill criteria gives you the unlesses that you need to be more rational about when it’s the right time to walk away.
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Leaders commonly fall into the trap of evaluating people solely by whether they’ve achieved a goal or not. When they do that, they’re increasing the potential for escalation of commitment.
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A good set of kill criteria means you can win by achieving a goal or by successfully following those kill criteria.
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Our lives are better if we have a larger portfolio of skills and opportunities available to us. The myopia that goals cause limits the size of that portfolio, because we don’t look for or see alternatives.
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When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.
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When a clear goal is attached to a specific task… it gives us an energizing push, a sense of purpose.
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…our tendency to set unrealistic goals, may be the cause of much of the current depression epidemic in the United States.
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