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Systems Are for Winners, Goals Are for Losers
Do you have systems or do you have goals? How do you think about the different areas in your life?
After reading Scott Adams’ How to fail at almost everything and still win big, I have looked at every area of my life to understand how I might use ‘systems’ thinking to my advantage.
What are systems? What are goals?
Systems
Systems is something that you apply intending to do something. For example, you could have a system for healthy eating where you eat healthy every day. Or you could have a system for how you take on projects where you try to build new skills every project you take on.
Goals
Goals are something that you will achieve. One of your goals could be to run a marathon at the end of the next year. Another goal is to become CEO in 5 years. Goals put you in a perpetual state of ‘pre-failure’, something that I learned from Scott. You work towards achieving your goal and you may or may not achieve it.
Goals are for losers
Why are goals for ‘losers’? Scott puts it in this way to make sure that you pay attention to why you may set goals. James Clear has an article that also talks about systems vs…
