Goal-Setting Doesn’t Work. Here’s What Does.
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It turns out that there are systems of desire behind nearly every goal — from education to investing to social media — which generate and shape the goals of the people within the systems. And the systems I’m referring to are systems of desire. Setting goals isn’t bad. But when the focus is on how to
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- It turns out that there are systems of desire behind nearly every goal — from education to investing to social media — which generate and shape the goals of the people within the systems. And the systems I’m referring to are systems of desire.
- Setting goals isn’t bad. But when the focus is on how to set goals rather than how to choose them in the first place, goals can easily turn into instruments of self-flagellation.
- Goals are often chosen for us, by models.
- But it’s worth asking where goals come from in the first place. Every goal is embedded within a system.
- Mimetic desire — the phenomenon of our wanting what other people want because they want it
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