On the process MoC • On passion and ambitious goals

The foolishness of doing things out of desire

...or solely for the attainment of an end goal, and the fundamental importance of loving what you do: The Price of Freedom

Doing things out of desire of obtaining something or an end result stifles creativity. It prevents you from Tinkering. It puts you in a rigid frame of mind, you're effectively putting on blinders. Usually, the achievements we seek are not trivial, yet anything that is non trivial to attain is too complex to be fully planned at the onset.
You don't know which milestones you need to reach to succeed because you don't know what you don't know. If you knew how to obtain it, you'd already have it.

Doing things out of desire makes you focus on the result instead of improvement, when you it's much better to do the opposite, i.e. focus on Improvement over results. It's exactly When you should not want to be doing things.

When doing things from a desire standpoint, we are losing as long as we don't get what we aim for. It's much easier and more fun to be Winning right from the start