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The problem with setting goals, with NFL linebacker Emmanuel Acho

WorkLife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

Are You Abandoning Goals?

"I believe in goal setting when you have to accomplish a microscopic goal for the macro picture," he says. "But if the mark cannot be improved, then I will submit and submit that my goal is not better than others' Goals can set us back by as much as 13 months of our lives because we don't realize how expensive they are", CNN's John D. Sutter writes.

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