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Failing to achieve is not failure(DW# 842)
Nov 17, 2020
If our goals are ambitious and truly outside our comfort zone, we will not achieve all of them.
That is the bad news.
The good news is that persevering towards ambitious projects is valuable for our growth, regardless of whether or not we achieve the specific goals.
I love how Ben Franklin puts it:
"Tho’ I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it."
This is the key: that we will be better and happier human beings for having attempted ambitious self-development goals whether or not we achieve our goals.
Set lofty goals(DW# 840)
Nov 13, 2020
It is interesting that Ben Franklin set himself a goal that was, almost by definition, unachievable.
Given that we are human beings, it is (highly!) unrealistic to believe that we will ever achieve Moral Perfection.
And yet we must die trying.
Our goals must be ambitious, lofty and inspiring in order to propel us towards action.
Otherwise we will get too comfortable in our comfort zone which is not where progress or development happens!