Benjamin Hardy

You actually feel like you've made no progress at all.

And you feel like a loser and you've devalued not only your current self, you've devalued everything that got you here.

And so ideals are beautiful.

They're just not useful as a measurement tool.

They're useful as a direction tool.

Goals are far more concrete.

Obviously, you can have goals that you set that move you toward your ideals.

And so goals are specific.

They're concrete.

They're mile markers on a journey.

And then the useful thing to do with your goals is to obviously become increasingly intrinsically motivated towards the goals you set and even the standards you set for yourself, that they're less about...

what anyone else thinks, what anyone else wants.

And you actually get better at doing that when you just start measuring your progress backwards.

So like I'll set a goal for myself.

I've got huge goals for 2023.

But in terms of where I'm measuring myself and in terms of my benchmark, like my benchmark for 2023 is what I accomplished in 2022.

Like I accomplished some cool things, but I'm using that

Since it's tangible.

Ideals are not tangible.

Like I have concrete evidence of what I did in 2022.