Problem with Pursuing Goals
In my last posts I was talking about Stronger and Weaker Goals. They stem from the internal human motivation to pursue something.
There are three main problems why people are not consistently going towards them:
๐—Ÿ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—จ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐˜†
People want to achieve some goal but don't feel that they necessarily need to do anything today - action can start tomorrow. This is procrastination.
๐—–๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ถ๐˜๐˜†
People get overwhelmed by the number of possible ways to achieve any given goal. They jump from one path to another, then to another, then maybe go back to first etc. This is a lack of focus.
๐——๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐—น๐˜๐˜†
People are overly optimistic about how easy it is to change so they fail to execute the plan that is just too difficult in a given point of time.
These three problems aren't present in games (at least good games). This is because they provide a necessary urgency motivation, they are designed to make players be focused (be in "flow state" if possible) and they are not too difficult and not too easy.
๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’. ๐ผ๐‘“ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘›'๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” - ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ก'๐‘  โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘ก.
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