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The Science (And Philosophy) Of Setting Optimal Goals

excellence, actually

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Do We Need the Big Hairy, Audacious Goals?

i think it depends on what area or interest you're looking at, um. When i was 14, like, i set a goal to run under four minutes in the mile as a high schooler. So that is like, big, hairy, audacious. But after a while, it then becomes this reminder in those things that we talked about at the beginning. And right now, on the practice of groundeniss, for whatever reason, this goal of a hundred thousand copies in the first two years popped into my mind. I wouldn't necessarily say it's super inspiring, but it doesn't seem mental either.

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