Brian Johnson breaks down why vague goals fail. Drawing on Caroline Adams Miller's research, he argues goals must be specific and hard. He uses coach Bob's method of meticulous longhand planning as an example of how detailed preparation actually works.
In the note, I talk about the science behind goal setting. Caroline Adams Miller, one of the world's leading practical psychologists, talks about this in her great book. I happen to write the foreword to that book, The Science of Goal Setting. You want to have specific, high, hard goals. Bob is an unbelievable case study in mastery of this. He knows exactly what he's going to have his athletes do every single workout. He writes it out in longhand. He's got his collection of notes over the last X decades, almost exactly like John Wooden would. he would do through his practices. But you want to set high, hard targets if you want to achieve, um, this big dream of yours.
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