When it comes to your personal life, business life, and political opinions, it makes sense to favour systems over goals whenever that is practical. A goal gives you one way to win, whereas a system can surface lots of winning paths, some of which you never could have imagined.
Instead of thinking about discrete outcomes (goals), it’s worth considering how you can build a system that slowly gets you to various goals and more.
Systems may bring multiple winning paths that you could not otherwise predict.
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