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> finding what you ACTUALLY WANT to achieve and then not getting distracted with eating frogs.

That's precisely the bad piece of advice. Nobody knows what they really want, most of the time, because people change, you change, and the environment changes. It's better to have a system that makes you do something to progress in your skills or your ongoing projects every single day, than coming up with a goal since you have no idea how to get there or that is even worth pursuing.

If you are not seeing any progress, the problem is not with the idea that you need to progress every day, rather a bad technique you are applying.



So people are generally incapable of governing themselves, and require goals to be imposed on them to make meaningful progress?

I sure as hell hope I'm reading you wrong, because yikes that is a frightening ideology.


where do you see goals imposed on them? i am precisely saying having goals does not work.




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