Dr. K
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They organize our frontal lobes.
They allow us to sequence out things.
So that's good.
But a goal being used to sequence things.
I'll give you an example.
I'm going to the airport later today.
So I had to pack.
But packing has, it's not like, it's a goal that I have to do, but I'm not like attached to it anyway.
It just helps me organize the sequence of events and then I have to take the actions.
There's no identity caught up in it.
I'm not like, eh.
Luis, trained at Harvard, back to my own undies.
I'm great, bro.
So this is where goals are important, but we should never have them serve a greater function than what they really should be serving.
What should they be serving?
Helping us organize action.
Yeah.
So, so, so beautiful example, because it's an example of, I didn't care that I accomplished the goal.
This is a really weird thing.
You didn't care if you were to accomplish it or not.