Many ambitious people see politics as a stepping stone to personal power. (Begin- Ambition)
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Explanation:
The conventional model to having great success in your career is setting and ardently pursuing big, hairy, audacious goals (BHAGs), even if you have no idea how you’re going to achieve them when you start.
Want to build a billion dollar company? Set the goal and work backwards from long-term goals to medium-term goals to short-term goals to today’s to-do list. Then take action, measure your progress along the way, and constantly course correct so you’re always on the most direct path (that you’re aware of) toward your ultimate goal.
Want to cure cancer? Set the goal and work backwards. Measure your progress.
Want to find the love of your life or be happy? Set the goal. Rinse and repeat.
This goals model is so obvious in our culture, it goes without saying. It’s central to our collective success recipe. Goals give motivation, meaning, and focus when we feel lazy or distracted — at least so we’re told.
However, recent research from the field of artificial intelligence is putting a nail in the coffin of this paradigm — making the case that goals are often OBSTACLES to LARGE feats of innovation rather than enablers. In the book Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned, researchers Kenneth Stanley and Joel Lehman, founding members of Uber AI Labs, compellingly present research for a new model of success and innovation with curiosity at its center.