“A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate events. We consider temporal distance as we do spatial distance. (Visualize a great day tomorrow and we see it with granular, practical clarity. But picture what a great day in the future might be like, not tomorrow but fifty years from now, and the image will be hazier.)” YearsMightMotivationalTurnsWinningGoalViewsEventsTomorrowDistancePracticalsClarityLandscapeFiftyGreat DaySpatialFuture Goals Book:The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery Source: The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
“The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.” EnjoyGoalEverydayDrivenPrioritiesEnjoymentDay To DayFuture Goals Author:Frances Mayes