FIELD NOTES with Meghan J. Ward

FIELD NOTES with Meghan J. Ward

The case against goal-setting 😲

What happens when life looks different from what we’d imagined?

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Meghan J. Ward
Apr 27, 2022
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A podcast caught my attention this past week, and it’s also led to some interesting conversations. The basics: in an episode of Brené Brown’s Unlocking Us, Emmanual Acho presents his new book, Illogical: Saying Yes to a Life Without Limits. They spent a large part of the podcast talking about one of the chapters, in which he says goals are dumb.

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