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Emmanuel Acho

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1125 total appearances

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TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

You'll work towards a $10 million business, but what if it could have been more?

TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

If you want to run a mile without stopping, you'll work towards it, and you might do just that, having never known if you could have run a marathon.

TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

What does it look like practically?

TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

Kirk Hammett, lead guitarist for Metallica.

TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

He never had the goal of winning eight Grammys.

TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

He never had the goal of selling 125 million records.

TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

Never had the goal of being a rock star.

TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

He simply said, and I quote, I just want to play my guitar a little bit better every day.

TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

Close quote.

TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

See, because with that, there is no end.

TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

A goal by its definition, it is focused on an ending, which means inherently a goal is limiting.

TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

It's not that goals in and of themselves have no value.

TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

It's just what about the damage you have done to yourself, your self-esteem, your self-efficacy, the way in which you view yourself when you look at yourself.

TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

What about that damage?

TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

I'm not saying don't achieve.

TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

I'm saying achieve limitlessly.

TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

Let go of the captivity of goal setting and achieve all you actually have to achieve.

TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

So what is my objective with no limitations?

TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

Very simply put, to be considered one of the most creative people the television industry has ever seen.

TED Talks Daily
Talks to Motivate You Playlist (10/10): Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho

Because if I would have achieved my goal of being drafted in the first three rounds of the NFL draft,