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How to set anti-goals

The generalized process involves four steps:

  1. Choose your area
  2. Set-up your goals
  3. Mark out the negative outcomes - either as final outcomes or along the way.  Do this by inverting the initial goals.
  4. Set-up these negative outcomes as Anti-g

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Set-up your goals

A goal setting process forces you to think about the journey instead of just the end destination.

1 - Ask yourself the following questions

  • Is this goal something you truly want? 
  • Is it important enough to pour hours of time and effort into it? 

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Where to use this frame-work?

Use this to;

  • Plan for new projects
  • Design your life
  • Create self-improvement plans

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Choose your area / arena?

The area is the project, or plan you are working on. 

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Invert the Problem

In the pursuit of these goals

  • What’s the worst possible outcome?
  • What systems would lead to that?
  • What daily actions would I regret?
  • In short, what would you view as winning the battle but losing the war?

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Establish Anti-goals

Now work backwards to establish your anti-goals.

Expanding on James Clear analogy: If traditional goals are the rudders that set your direction, think of anti-goals as the map that tells you where the rapids are.

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Anti-Goals

Anti-Goals

antigoal (plural antigoals) An undesirable state to be avoided, the opposite of a goal. 

The concept is grounded in inversion—a mental model that says that big probl...

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Think of anti-goals as being about avoiding the "Pyrrhic victory”—a victory that takes such a terrible toll on the victor that it might has well have been a defeat. (Sahil Bloom)

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