How Your Current Goals System Completely Failed You
Kevin Hogan
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Is it Possible for People to Change?
The better question is can people who set goals, who are "normal" people
of laziness, perhaps sloth, and definitely entitlement ever become...
change into...people of achievement and actually MOVE toward their GOALS?
Answer.
You bet.
But...it takes a few things to make it happen.
It takes ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONTExTUAL CHANGE.
The Single Most Important Factor in Change
In other words, the environment, the context is the SINGLE MOST important
factor in your behavior.
If you don't change your environment and context, you will not change.
Period.
If you don't change the most dynamic influences in your life, you will not
change.
Those influences are often other people.
People will either push you to change. (We call them pushy people)
or...
People will reinforce normal human behavior, to accept welfare, unemployment,
to take from those who achieve and redistribute by threat of force and threat of
imprisonment to those who do almost nothing to generate value or growth
of culture and the environment.
That is predictable. Here's the cycle...(no charge).
The Stages of Societies
Most societies at most stages of their history will be in an "Entitlement"
stage about HALF of the life cycle of a culture.. There are other stages
that lead to entitlement.
There is the "Discovery" or "Movement" stage where people find a new land or place
or place to work. Usually because they are FORCED TO MOVE or CHANGE.
There is the "Settlement" stage where the people who just experienced months
or years of dramatic change "settle in" and establish occupations to create
value for the environment.
There is the "Doctrine of Inequality" stage where the 80% who don't contribute to
the value of the environment become angry and decide to punish the 20% who
do contribute and redistribute wealth, which never works because the 90% of
people who are comfort creatures absorb all wealth only to be entitled to
more. (Note the overlap, I'll come back there in two weeks as well.)
And then the society dies and is taken over by another society that is
in the "Discovery" or "Movement" stage.
There is the "Discovery" or "Movement" stage where people find a new land or place
or place to work. Usually because they are FORCED TO MOVE or CHANGE.
