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Forget About Setting Goals, Focus on This Instead

Forget About Setting Goals, Focus on This Instead

Mario Peshev
January 08, 2022

Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins

Happy New Year! Let's kick off 2022 on a good note.

3 Ideas For Better Habits

Forget Your Goals, Focus On Systems Instead

Author and habits expert James clear on the problem with goal setting:

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.

Your goal is your desired outcome. Your system is the collection of daily habits that will get you there.

This year, spend less time focusing on outcomes and more time focusing on the habits that precede the results.” Source: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

Competing to Be the Best Kills Creativity

Harvard Business School Senior Associate Joan Magretta on the secret to innovation:

“Competing to be the best feeds on imitation. Competing to be unique thrives on innovation.” Source: Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy 3

One Sided Perspectives Lead to Wrong Assumptions

Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the dangers of a single story:

"That is how you create a single story, show a people as one thing. As only one thing, over and over again and that is what they become...The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story...The consequence of the single story is this: it robs people of dignity...it emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar...when we reject the single story. When we realize that there is never a single story of any place, we regain a kind of paradise."

Source: The Danger Of a Single Story

Productivity Tools and Resources

Discover Exercises to Workout Any Muscle Group

Muscle wiki is an interactive website that helps you discover exercises to workout any selected muscle in your body.

Remove the Clutter On Any Recipe Site

Just the recipe is a website that helps you quickly retrieve the ingredients and instructions for any recipe page. No life story, popups, or other clutter.

Brain Food

Today I Learned: Charlie Chaplin’s moustache was fake. It was a part of his makeup. (Source)

Have a productive week,

The Smarter Brain Team

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