Hey everyone, you're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.

I'm your host, Elise Hu.

Thank you for listening to today's podcast playlist, 10 talks to motivate you.

Today, we have dropped 10 talks from our archive onto the feed all at once to motivate you,

to keep you going when things are hard, to inspire you as the weather shifts, to help kickstart

that new project or idea, or if things are feeling good for you right now, just to offer a different

perspective.

Whatever type of motivation you might need, we have a TED talk for that.

To wrap up, we are bringing you former NFL player, author, and TV sports analyst,

Emmanuel Acho.

In athletics, in business, in life, everyone seems to set goals.

Surprising though, it may seem, that might not be the way to excel.

In his 2023 talk, Emmanuel offers some

thoughts on how to get better, push forward, and do more by explicitly not setting goals. It's coming up

right after a short break. And now our TED Talk of the Day.

I do not suppose to know everything.

And those closest to me, they might say, I don't really know much at all.

But one thing that I know to be true, beyond the shadow of a doubt, is this.

The surest way to fail in life is to set a goal.

Now, unfortunately, I found this out through excruciating pain, but hopefully in the next

nine minutes, I can convince you, too, that this is true, without the pain, unless, of course,

you consider listening to me painful.

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