<p>A good heuristic for goal-setting is that they should be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria">SMART </a>(specific, measureable, attainable, relevant and time-bound). Implementation intentions, formulated as IF... THEN... plans <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0065260106380021">tend to work better </a>than just focusing on an outcome on its own. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_fallacy">Planning fallacies </a>also need to be watched for as many goal-setting efforts can be overly optimistic. </p>

In any field, there are a few ideas that are core to understanding everything else. Biology makes little sense without evolution. Physics without symmetries and conservation laws is baffling. All mathematics can be built out of sets. Self-improvement isn't usually regarded as an intellectual field.

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