The Case for Not Setting Goals
‘What you can plan is too small for you to live’
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4 min readApr 26, 2021
When I was 12, I plotted out my entire life on a ream of perforated printer paper. It was a long, skinny timeline of events and milestones: go to college, teach, publish a book. Maybe even get married and have children. I brought the ream of paper to my mother and pointed to each milestone — I needed a witness — then I rolled up…
