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Adam Alter on how to kick mobile phone addiction, how to overcome stuck points, and why he doesn't set goals.

How I Work

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How to Set and Reach Goals

I think there's an element of goal setting that's a little bit broken for me and it's inherently broken. It's this idea that until you reach the goal state, you're inherently failing. The alternative to goals is something that Scott Adams described as systems instead of goals. And so I sort of try to sit down for a couple of hours a month and really think about in which direction I'm aiming my whatever,. My time, my resources, my efforts.

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