One speaker argues goals feel like one-shot pressure plays, like a powerlifting PR. They now call their tasks "initiatives" instead, treating them as experiments where failure is expected. This removes pressure and lets you just do the work.
When you set goals, you're telling yourself, look, again, going back to the powerlifting, we would talk about a PR, a personal record. What's your goal? What's your PR? So there's this inherent definition to a goal that it's something that's going to be really hard to achieve. And it's going to be a one-off if I get it.
Yeah, very true.
Right. So I don't— I use the word initiatives. It's funny in my journal when I write what I'm working on. I used to have goals and I'd write them down. Now it's like, crap I'm doing, things I'm making happen, you know, whatever. Yes, more of this, please. Like, whatever strikes me that day.
Yeah.
But if you can combine the idea that the objective— not the goal, but the objective— is failure, and you have no idea how many times you're gonna have to try until you hit it, It takes so much pressure off because now we're just doing the work.
Yeah.
Now we're just doing the work. Yeah.
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