[Read5for5 📚] The Dark Side of Big Goals

“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”

― Leonardo da Vinci

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Hi friends,

This is Kei and Kazuki from Glasp 👋

We are excited to start Day 2 of the 5 Day Reading Challenge 📚✨ Here are three good articles we chose, so when you finish reading any of them or any article you want, share it on Twitter with the hashtag, "#read5for5"! Let's read good articles together and connect with like-minded people 🤝

Today's Reading List 📚

(1) The Dark Side of Big Goals by Sahil Bloom (5 mins)

• Challenges of Big Goals: Pursuing large ambitions, such as running a marathon in under 3 hours, can lead to a brief high followed by a low due to unrealistic expectations of happiness, loss of purpose, and external validation seeking, resulting in a cycle of dissatisfaction.

• Adopting Micro Goals: To combat the negatives associated with big goals, the author shifts focus to Micro Goals that encourage intrinsic motivation, and continuous purpose, and avoid the pitfalls of achievement-related happiness fallacies.

• Balanced Goal Setting Strategy: The author proposes a balanced approach to goal setting that combines the direction of Big Goals with the motivation and fulfillment of Micro Goals, aiming for a more sustainable and satisfying pursuit of personal growth and achievement.

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(2) How to find success with the 4 conditions of “intelligent failure” by Kevin Dickinson (6 mins)

• Embrace Intelligent Failure: Intelligent failure occurs in low-risk situations and is crucial for growth, differing from careless or complex failures by being hypothesis-driven, focused on new areas, and aiming for minimal negative outcomes.

• Implement Key Strategies: Utilize small-scale experiments, diversify ideas, establish feedback systems, know when to pivot, and avoid perfectionism to foster intelligent failures that lead to learning and improvement.

• Shift Perspective on Failure: Viewing failure as an essential step towards success encourages experimentation and innovation, challenging the cultural stigma against failing and highlighting its role in discovery and achievement.

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(3) The Physics of Productivity: Newton’s Laws of Getting Stuff Done by James Clear (5 mins)

1. First Law: Initiating any small action can help overcome procrastination and keep you moving forward, highlighting the importance of starting tasks to maintain productivity momentum.

2. Second Law: Productivity depends not just on the amount of effort, but also on the direction of that effort. Focusing your work on the right tasks is crucial for effective productivity.

3. Third Law: Balancing productive and unproductive forces suggests two strategies for increasing productivity: amplifying positive forces or reducing negative ones, with a preference for simplifying and removing obstacles to naturally advance productivity.

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See you tomorrow again ;)

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Glasp team

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