The Role of Goals

The Role of Goals

Yale University in the United States has conducted a follow-up survey spanning 20 years. At the very beginning, researchers at this university asked the students who participated in the survey a question: "Do you have goals?" Ninety percent of the students answered yes. The researchers then asked, "If you have a goal, do you write it down?" At this point, only 4 percent of the students answered, "Write it down."

Twenty years later, researchers at Yale University followed up with the students who took the survey that year. It turned out that those students who had goals and wrote them down in black and white far outperformed those who did not, both in terms of career growth and standard of living. They created more value than the remaining 96% of students combined. So, what are the 96% of students doing today? Researchers have found that these people are busy and have spent their lives directly or indirectly helping the 4% of the population to achieve their ideals.

Riushahe's poem "Ideal" says: "Ideal is the stone, knocking out the fire of the stars; ideal is the fire, lighting the extinguished lamp; ideal is the lamp, lighting the road of the night; ideal is the road, leading you to the dawn." The goal has a guiding and power guarantee role in a person's life, and should not be ignored.

2, the goal should be clear

Psychologists once did such an experiment.

Organization of three groups of people, let them respectively towards the three villages 10 kilometers away.

The first group of people did not know the name of the village, nor do they know how far the journey, just tell them to follow the guide on the line. Just two or three kilometers out, some people began to scream; halfway, some people were almost angry, they complained why they had to walk so far, and when they could reach the end, some people even sat on the side of the road and did not want to go; the further they went, the more depressed their mood was.

The second group knew the name of the village and how far it was, but there were no milestones on the roadside, so they could only estimate the travel time and distance by experience. Halfway through the journey, most people wanted to know how far they had gone, and the more experienced ones said, "About halfway." So, everyone clustered again and continued on. By the time they reached three-quarters of the way through, everyone was starting to get depressed and feel exhausted, and the distance still seemed long. When someone said, "We're almost there!" "Almost there!" Everyone had cheered up and quickened the pace of the march.

The third group not only knew the name of the village, the distance, but there was a milestone along the road every kilometer, so people walked and looked at the milestone, and every kilometer shortened everyone had a small burst of joy. During the march they used songs and laughter to eliminate fatigue, emotions have been very high, so they soon arrived at their destination.

Psychologists have come to the conclusion that when people's actions have a clear goal, and can constantly compare their actions with the goal, and then clearly know their travel speed and the distance between the goal, people's motivation to act will be maintained and strengthened, will consciously overcome all difficulties, and strive to reach the goal.

3、Big goals are composed of small goals

The story of the famous Japanese marathon runner Honichi Yamada. He had won the world championship twice in the international marathon in 1984 and 1987. When reporters asked him several times what made him achieve such outstanding results, Honichi Yamada always replied categorically: to win with wisdom over his opponents. People know that the marathon is mainly a contest of athletes' physical strength and stamina, while explosive power, speed and skills are secondary, so many people were suspicious and disbelieved Yamada's answer of "winning with wisdom", and always thought that he was exaggerating. However, ten years later, people finally verified from Yamada's autobiography that "winning with wisdom" was indeed the experience of his success. He wrote in his autobiography: Before each race, I had to take a car to carefully survey the race route and draw down the more prominent signs along the way, such as the first sign is a bank, the second sign is a big tree, the third sign is an apartment ...... so as to the end of the race. After the race started, I sprinted to the first goal with the energy of a 100-meter sprint; after reaching the first goal, I sprinted to the second goal at the same speed ...... The 40-plus kilometers were thus broken down into several smaller goals and easily run. At first, I did not do this, but set my goal at once on that flag at the finish line. As a result, I felt exhausted after running for more than ten kilometers, because I was intimidated by the distant distance ahead.

The big success is paved by the small goals.

4、The goal determines the achievement

One day, a reporter went to a construction site to interview, respectively, asked three construction workers an identical question. He asked the first construction worker what he was doing, the worker did not look up and replied, "I am building a wall." He asked the second construction worker the same question, and the second construction worker replied, "I'm building a house." The reporter asked a third worker again, ? This time he got the answer, "I'm building beautiful homes for people." The reporter found the three construction workers' answers so interesting that he included them in his story.

Some years later, the reporter was organizing his past interviews and suddenly came across these three answers. The three different answers gave him a strong desire to see how these three workers were living now.

When he found the three workers, he was amazed by the results: the first construction worker was still a construction worker, still building his walls as before; the designer who was working on the construction and now holding the drawings was the second worker; as for the third worker, the reporter found him without much effort, he is now the owner of a real estate company, the first two workers are working for him The first two workers are working for him.

A person's goal directly determines his future prospects.

Napoleon said, "A soldier who does not want to be a marshal is not a good soldier." There is a profound truth.

5、The road to success is paved with goals

When President Roosevelt's wife was a student at Bennington College, she intended to find a job in the telecommunications industry to supplement her living. His father introduced her to a good friend of his, General Salloff, who was then the chairman of the American Radio Company.

The general received her warmly and asked earnestly, "Which job would you like to do?"

He replied, "Whatever you want."

The general said to her with a serious look, "There is no such thing as a 'whatever' job."

A moment later, the general looked at her with a compelling gaze and reminded her in the tone of an elder, "The road to success is paved with goals."

If there is no goal in life, it is like an expedition in the dark. Life should have a lifetime goal, a period goal, a stage goal, a day goal, a week goal, a month goal, a year goal.

A philosopher said this: "Great goals constitute great minds, great goals produce great motivation, and great goals form great people. No ambitious goals can make people lose motivation! No specific goals will make people lose confidence!" The philosopher's words are a general note on the psychologist's conclusion, so teachers should pay great attention to helping students design their goals in life.