My personal notes for The Top Three Ways People Fail (and How to Avoid Them)

An article by Taylor Pearson from taylorpearson.me
#psychology#productivity#growth
  • Set a deadline. Without some pressure to finish, you simply won’t work as hard.
  • Don’t confuse goals with vision. Goals have a short timeline. Vision is long-term. Both are valuable, but goals are more actionable.
  • Focus on process, not outcomes. Outcomes make sense if you’ve done a thing before, but if you’ve never done it then they’re a recipe for failing and being unhappy. Instead, focus on the process. If you focus on the process, and the end result doesn’t work, you can stop and ask “why isn’t this working?”