Goals vs Dreams — The Competitive Edge of Champions that You Need to Learn

World class athletes, artists, and inventors do this as naturally as breathing

Lon Shapiro
The Inner Game of Writing
8 min readJan 24, 2021

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If you search for the word “goal,” you will scroll past a mountain of articles and not one of them can explain its meaning.

Instead, you will find a tedious, self-contradictory list of clichés that mean nothing, such as “A goal is a dream with a deadline,” or “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”

The reason for this is content marketers and self-help gurus want you to believe in unicorns that shit rainbows.

They are in the business of selling shovels to desperate prospectors searching for gold in a world with fewer and fewer resources.

I’m sorry, but the “Laws of Attraction” don’t get a seat at the same dinner table with evolution, gravity, and relativity.

Why listen to self-help gurus and snake oil salesmen instead of the greatest genius of the 20th century?

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” — Albert Einstein

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Lon Shapiro
The Inner Game of Writing

High quality creative & design https://guttmanshapiro.com. Former pro athlete & high quality performance coach. Teach the world one high quality joke at a time