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The Input Is the Goal

Name: The Input Is the Goal
Uploaded: 2024-07-27T15:00:37+00:00
Duration: 15 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this brief dialogue, Speaker A observes that individuals who achieve multiple wins become fixated on the need to keep winning, which creates stress…

27 Jul 2024 · 0 min

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In this brief dialogue, Speaker A observes that individuals who achieve multiple wins become fixated on the need to keep winning, which creates stress and shifts their focus from diligent effort to merely chasing victory. This pressure erodes their performance. Speaker B counters by emphasizing that the proper approach is to treat the inputs—the hard work and process—as the primary goal; when inputs are prioritized, the desired outputs naturally follow. Conversely, making outcomes the sole goal distorts the inputs that originally produced success.

But so many of the people who win twice or three or four, anything more than one, everything in their mind starts to just be, well, now I have to win. And then that stress and pressure takes away from their ability to perform, and then they're chasing the actual goal before the process. So they're like, fuck working hard, I just have to win. It's like, well, no, you just have to work hard.
It's making the inputs the goal, not the outputs. If you make the inputs the goal, the outputs occur. If you make the outputs the goal, you change what the inputs are that got you the output in the first place.