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One top-level professional goal is best. But to have that as the only life goal is extreme. Family matters to some, too, and there is no morally right single goal (career or parent)
page: 66
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goals
A low-level goal is a means to an end; a top-level goal is an end in itself. These are connected in a tree hierarchy.
page: 62
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goals
The discipline of shipping is essential to the long-term path to becoming indispensable. Not shipping on behalf of your goal of changing the world is often a symptom of the resistance. Call its bluff, ship always, and __then__ change the world. The only purpose of starting is to finish.
page: 103
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shipping
indispensability
goals
resistance
finishing
The fastest way to improve someone's everyday quality of life is to "bestow on a person a specific goal, something to do and to look forward to." When a clear goal is attached to a specific task, it gives us an energizing push, a sense of purpose.
page: 57
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goals
purpose
Flexible Optimism: continually assessing our abilities to achieve a goal, and intensifying or reducing our efforts accordingly. When practiced, we see more opportunities for success, but don't overstate our abilities. and we don't overestimate the amount of control we have over the outcome.
page: 68
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optimism
self-assessment
goals
effort
opportunity
success
ability
control
We reduce our optimism when we get feedback that we're pursuing unattainable goals or operating in a low-control environment. We recognize that our time and energy would be better spent elsewhere.
page: 70
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energy
optimism
time
goals
work
When we don't pay attention to our real skills and abilities, don't put efforts toward the goals we are capable of achieving, and are distracted by extreme dreams (fame, fortune, glory), our evolutionary mechanism, depression, kicks in, signaling our ill-fated efforts.
page: 70
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depression
goals
It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
page: 114
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goals
purpose
We have to set concrete goals, and in the pursuit of those goals, we capture happiness as a kind of by-product. We have to approach it sideways, like a crab. We can't let it know we're coming. We just kind of sneak up on it from the side.
page: 214
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goals
happiness
Purposes are deduced from behavior, not from rhetoric or stated goals
page: 10
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purposes
behavior
goals