Comment by kelseyfrog

I'm not sure. In my experience humans without explicit goal generation training tend to under perform at generating goals. In other words, our out-of-distribution performance for goal generation is poor.

Noticing this, frameworks like SMART[1], provide explicit generation rules. The existence of explicit frameworks is evidence that humans tend to perform worse than expected at extracting implicit structure from goals they've observed.

1. Independent of the effectiveness of such frameworks