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Snippet 17: How To Set Better Goals for 2023 - Oliver Burkeman

Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal

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Goals and Goal Setting

Oliver Bergman is the author of 4000 Weeks, Time and How to Use It. He says he has a 'weird relationship' with the idea of goals. His philosophy is that it's unsatisfying when you set goals outside of your control. But quantity-based goals can be really helpful in some cases,. If you say like, I'm going to put out this number of videos or this number of. words on a, on a, by a certain point, firstly, it's specific. Secondly, it's within your control. And then thirdly, they go wrong because they're so emotive.

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