Should we even be setting Goals?

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Hey team, as we begin to get ready to roll into the new year, we’re going to be seeing a lot more about New Year’s Resolutions and goal setting - but we’re also going to be getting a lot of pushback articles as well. Articles telling us how setting goals is only setting us up for failure and what we need to do instead. And the question is, who do we believe?

In this episode, we’re going to be examining some of the arguments against setting goals and also looking at what we might want to be doing instead and how we can combine that all into one overall theory.

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This Episode’s Top Tips

Regardless if you want to call something a goal or not, breaking down a goal into its component parts and focusing on the process that’s going to get you there is a better way to approach goal setting.
We don’t want to be striving for arbitrary numbers goal setting needs to have a why behind it to have any meaningful impact.
We don’t need to always hit our goals to be successful with them. Goals are often just targets we’re aiming for, and we can always learn from our failures.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:09.0	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:13.0	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:19.0	Hey, team, as we begin to get ready to roll into the new year,
0:23.8	we're going to be seeing a lot more about New Year's resolutions and goal setting.
0:28.6	But we're also going to be getting a lot of pushback articles as well.
0:32.8	Articles telling us how setting goals is only setting us up for failure
0:36.2	and what we need to do instead.
0:38.8	And the question is, what do we believe? Do we even want to set goals?
0:43.3	In this episode, we're going to be examining some of the arguments against setting goals
0:47.1	and also looking at what we might want to be doing instead, and how we can combine all of that
0:51.8	into one overall theory of what we want to do.
0:55.4	If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at hacking your ADHD.com
1:00.8	slash no goals.
1:03.1	All right, keep on listening to find out if we should even be setting up goals at all.
1:23.3	When we dive into these articles about not setting goals, it's actually going to have a lot of the same advice that we'd see in goal setting articles.
1:26.7	Additionally, one of the biggest problems I see with this movement of not setting goals is a
1:30.8	reliance on particular straw-man arguments.
1:34.1	A straw-man argument is a logical fallacy where someone takes a distorted, oversimplified,
1:39.5	exaggerated, or misrepresented version of an argument to make it easier to defeat.
1:44.4	Let's hope I don't do that here when I'm trying to defend against this.
1:49.1	In this case, the argument comes down to how we define what a goal is, and specifically the way
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