Comment by noodletheworld

This isn't realistic.

Wanting things to be true does not make them true.

“Get a promotion this year, be a manager next year, manage the division in three years” is not a plan you can execute.

This is just the old self affirmation stuff you hear all the time: you won't succeed if you want it a bit. You wont succeed if want it and do nothing. You will succeed if you go all in, 100%.

It is BS.

You wont succeed if you go all in, statistically.

You might get a different outcome, but you wont hit your goal.

It is provably false that everyone who goes all succeeds; Not everyone gets to be an astronaut, no matter how hard they work.

The reality is that some people will put a little effort in and succeed, and some people will put a lot in and succeed. Other people will fail.

Your goals are not indicators of future success.

Only actual things that have actually happened are strong signals for future events.

The advice of having goals is helpful, but the much much more important thing to do is measure what actually happens and realistically create goals based on actual reality.

Try things. Measure things. Adopt things that work. Consciously record what you do, how it goes, how long it takes and use that to estimate achievable goals, instead of guessing randomly.