What Everyone Gets Wrong About Goals

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast

Mark Manson

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

It’s 2024 and hopefully you haven’t already given up on your goals for the year.

Today, we’re going to talk about the best and worst ways to set goals. We’ll talk about the factors that make you more likely to achieve your goals, why you lose motivation by week three, and the most common error everyone makes when deciding to change themselves for the better. We’ll also be sharing some of our personal goal disasters along the way to learn what not to do.

We’d also like you to share your goals with us! Details on how to do that are here.

Happy New Year.

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0:00.0	It is a new year and one of the unfortunate requirements of working in the self-help industry
0:09.1	is that every fucking year you got to do a new year new you piece of content so that's what we're doing today
0:15.6	Drew and I are going to sit down. We're going to talk about goal setting the right way to do goal setting the wrong way to do goal setting and we're going to discuss some of our catastrophic goal setting failures from our own past, discuss what went wrong, what we did wrong.
0:28.8	We'll also discuss some of our goal setting successes, some of the goals that we set and achieved in the past and why we
0:35.2	think that we achieved it.
0:36.9	And then we're at the end we're going to break down our goals for 2024 and how we're
0:40.5	going to attack them and how we're going to make sure that we accomplish them and we're actually going to check in with you audience
0:46.5	Probably somewhere in June and hold ourselves accountable see if we actually walked the fucking walk.
0:53.4	I'm really excited for this one.
0:54.5	I feel like everybody has a goal setting disaster.
0:59.0	Everybody's had that experience where they've set aggressive, ambitious goals and then just hilariously failed them.
1:07.2	My biggest one, I had in my 20s, I think as a New Year's resolution for like four years running I had a goal to get a six-pack by summer.
1:16.9	This is embarrassing to say as a mature old man but yes in my 20s every year for like four years running I wanted to have a six-back by summer and
1:30.3	failed catastrophically every single time. I think the closest I got was there was one year
1:37.1	I decided that the trick to do it, you know, because I got on a bunch of internet forums, you know, where the truth is and I discovered that the secret
1:47.1	was to eat only frozen chicken and vegetables for every meal, even breakfast, Everything. I would do two eggs for breakfast and then
1:56.6	I would do frozen chicken breast and vegetables for lunch and dinner. What I didn't
2:01.6	account for was the fact that I was still going out and drinking a lunch and
2:05.0	about once a week, about once a week I would just get absolutely hammered
2:10.0	and eat pizza at 3 in the morning.
2:12.0	That, unsurprisingly, that torpedoed my extremely brilliant six-pack diet
2:20.0	that I tried to create for myself. And when I look back I just realized that I was
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