- by Lisa D. Ordóñez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, Max H. Bazerman
- should we set goals﹖
- already summarized in ~ SMART goals kill task pleasure and increase tunnel-vision
- a lot is organization politics and ethics
- maybe less relevant to personal productivity than 📖 Feel-Good Productivity led me to believe
- generally cherry-picking the highlights of history and ⌣ psychology, eg Lee Iacocca and the god dam Gorilla in our midst
- interesting point: ~ 'do your best' may work better than goal setting
- ~ people with many goals focus only on one
- post-pellet pause
- ~ hard goals incentivize risk-taking
- perhaps most simply: ~ goals make people cheat
- ~ goals interfere with learning
📝 Goals gone wild: the systematic side effects of overprescribing goal setting
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