The Science of Goal Setting

David Weinberger: When individuals are entering the workplace, what they're typically coming from is some sort of educational setting. He says there's not a lot of evidence anywhere that setting normal goals actually improves performance in any way. But on the other hand, he says, setting stretch goals does increase performance when they provide focus and all this other stuff. We need to be setting much more short term goals in terms of the pandemic and the kind of experiences that we're all having, Steinberg says.