On Passion and Ambitious Goals MoC
Fixating on the way to do something
What's problematic with setting goals is not so much about fixating on a goal, but about fixating on a way to reach that goal.
The farthest, and more ambitious the goal, the less clue you have about how to achieve it.
Thus, the more open you have to be. And when I say open, I mean open to any ideas, people and opportunities, particularly when they don't seem to have anything to do with your goal. Maybe even more in that case. Forget goals, pull threads.
In the past, when I was fixating on goal, I was also fixating on a certain way to accomplish them, ignoring anything that, in my closed mindset, seemed unrelated. I was ignoring what I thought was irrelevant in helping me reach that goal. It prevented me to Try other angles. I was obsessing on one or few ways I believed were the only ways to achieve it. This greatly stifled my creativity and serendipity, because You can only connect the dots from afar.