July 09, 2023

Goals as airports, lighthouses, and plumes

11 minutes

How we think about goals can impact how we navigate to reach them. No metaphor is wholly helpful or harmful, and each can have a different effect on us depending on how we apply it and even our past history with similar concepts. What metaphors do you currently find helpful when journeying toward your goals?

Mentioned in this episode:

The 1 in 60 rule implications for flight paths towards airports (e.g., this article from Veteran's Magazine)

Goals as lighthouses as expanded on by Ryder Caroll, the creator of the Bullet Journal Method

Plume sources and crab behavior: image of a crab in a plume of odor with some legs in and some legs out of the scent and an image of what a full plume looks like that a crab would track from this research paper studying this context-dependent goal-directed behavior

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