Avoiding Avoidance Goals
Goal setting also reverses the psyche in the most profound way possible.
Tracy again: “Successful people think about what they want and how to get it,” he writes, “while unsuccessful and unhappy people think about what they don’t want and talk about their problems and worries and who is to blame.”
Anthony Robbins (1992) wrote that the human mind is always in pursuit of an objective (Aristotle backs this up, opining that humans are a “teleological” organism, which means we are always moving towards something). So if we are not pursuing positive goals, says Robbins, we are pursuing the goal of eliminating or avoiding pain. These are negative or avoidance goals but, for the High-FF, they are probably the only real goals ...
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