Are You Ruining Your Life? | Your Next Breakthrough
We may progress, but we feel like we’re constantly failing. And so instead of inspiring audacious next steps, our goals spark anxiety (What if I don’t succeed?), apathy (Why care when the journey ahead is all mapped out already?), and anger (Why am I forced to play this game?).
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
We live in a goal-oriented culture and we receive encouragement to identify goals, write them down, and work towards them. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this, except that we can quickly find ourselves attached to the goals themselves, which are nearly always outcomes. And outcomes, in most cases, are uncontrollable. Finding a job, losing we
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For one, as a person, you can waste your time pursuing things that aren’t for you and suffer emotional pain when those things don’t go well. Even if they do go well, you know that you aren’t doing what you’re meant to do and you can’t enjoy life the same way.