We're All Chasing One Another's Goals

The circularity of goal-setting—and how to achieve escape velocity in 2022

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​We hear a lot about goal setting, but hardly anything about why we are so obsessed with goal setting in the first place. Many of us relentlessly pursue goals — which we take for granted as good — without pausing to ask ourselves whether we should.

​There’s a meta dimension to goal setting. What are the circ…