The older I get the more it sinks in that 90% of effectiveness is just taking a thing seriously enough. That translates to just wanting the thing itself rather than adjacent things that may or may not happen as a side effect. Most things sort themselves out if you’re serious.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1279285975860953090 …
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When you’re serious, you are naturally efficient because you don’t get distracted by side goals. You’re naturally as productive as needed because under or overshooting what you seriously want.
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Most of the time ambiguity in goal-setting is not about wanting the wrong thing or being confused about means-ends matches. It is about wanting the thing wrong. You want to want the thing-itself. The naked, nominal, stated goal, not psychologically adjacent bullshit.
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Say what you really want is psychologically adjacent bullshit, but you don’t want to want that because you see it as bullshit. Then self-delusion is your only viable strategy, despite the inevitable inefficiency of focusing “incorrectly”? Is this a common trap, or just me?
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It’s not just common it’s probably the default
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