OPEN-END GOALS AND CLOSED-END EFFORT
This became apparent to me when prospecting as a financial advisor and when writing books. It's easy to predict the level of succes. It's harder to be right. I did better as a financial advisor as I had some data to work from.
Trump is crazy to predict a success time for OPERATION WARP SPEED except as a motivator. He did hedge it a bit later in the conference, but nobody will remeber that.
So, SET THE GOAL ONCE, then CONTINUOUSLY FOCUS ON THE EFFORT.
For instance, in the case of the group of 12-year old girls who knew little about basketball, they FOCUSED ON THE FULL COURT PRESS and went to nationals.
I'm in a READING FULL COURT PRESS. And also a WRITING FULL COURT PRESS.
I don't have a goal for the number of books to read this year. I'll just keep my head down and PRESS, PRESS, PRESS.
This is the DAVID STRATEGY.
Now, I did set a goal of 36 books for the year. How would an outsider calculate the odds of me doing it? They would do a gausian estimate and on the whole, they would be OK for the group.
My odds aren't published anywhere. I may be seen as an outlier or average. What won't be measured is the level of knowledge I gain by the FULL COURT PRESS.
