Comments on: Goals: A Year Later http://thedanexperiment.com/2006/12/03/goals-a-year-later/ Life, Technology, Science, Skepticism Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:56:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Adam http://thedanexperiment.com/2006/12/03/goals-a-year-later/comment-page-1/#comment-4171 Adam Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:30:25 +0000 http://www.thedanexperiment.com/2006/12/03/goals-a-year-later/#comment-4171 I think it is good your priorities have shifted, though you have not laid out explicitly those new priorities. I have never had any doubt that you would be the most economically successful of the lot of us from high school, but I think having breadth in your goals gives you breadth in character. A million dollars is just a thing. Like a heavyweight boxer, if you want to punch your opponent, you'll punch your opponent. If you want to knock him out, you don't punch him, you punch the last row in the arena. Committing to something bigger than your goal makes transgressing your actual goal much easier. I don't know much about business, where overcommitting can probably lead to poor decisions, but in personal motivation the only thing that can defeat your personal commitments is your own weakness. I am glad to see you are updating your blog again. I read it often it for a while but when your updates lapsed, I stopped checking on a regular basis. Sorry we weren't able to meet up over Thanksgiving, I wasn't able to get out of the city. If you're around over the winter, I haven't any work after the 21st as of yet. Let me know. Cheers, Dan. I think it is good your priorities have shifted, though you have not laid out explicitly those new priorities. I have never had any doubt that you would be the most economically successful of the lot of us from high school, but I think having breadth in your goals gives you breadth in character. A million dollars is just a thing. Like a heavyweight boxer, if you want to punch your opponent, you’ll punch your opponent. If you want to knock him out, you don’t punch him, you punch the last row in the arena. Committing to something bigger than your goal makes transgressing your actual goal much easier. I don’t know much about business, where overcommitting can probably lead to poor decisions, but in personal motivation the only thing that can defeat your personal commitments is your own weakness.

I am glad to see you are updating your blog again. I read it often it for a while but when your updates lapsed, I stopped checking on a regular basis. Sorry we weren’t able to meet up over Thanksgiving, I wasn’t able to get out of the city. If you’re around over the winter, I haven’t any work after the 21st as of yet. Let me know.

Cheers, Dan.

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