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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.
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Motivations Wanting the thing Wanting to be seen to want the thing Wanting to do the things needed to do the thing Wanting to be seen to do the things needed to do the thing Wanting to want the thing Wanting to want to do the thing Wanting to have done the thing
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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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