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I can’t remember having a goal. An actual goal.
There are things I’ve wanted to do, but if I didn’t do them I’d be fine with that too. There are targets that would have been nice to hit, but if I didn’t hit them I wouldn’t look back and say I missed them.
I don’t aim for things that way.
I do things, I try things, I build things, I want to make progress, I want to make things better for me, my company, my family, my neighborhood, etc. But I’ve never set a goal. It’s just not how I approach things.
A goal is something that goes away when you hit it. Once you’ve reached it, it’s gone. You could always set another one, but I just don’t function in steps like that.
When you shift from 1st to 2nd, 1st is behind you. Then from 2nd to 3rd, 2nd is behind you. I approach things continuously, not in stops. I just want to keep going — whatever happens along the way is just what happens.
I consider Basecamp, my current business, as one continuous line back from when I sold the first thing I ever remember making — a logo for $50 (which happened to be for Andrei Heramischuk— who knew!). I was 16 or something like that at the time. I didn’t have a goal to make two logos, or to be able to charge $5000 for a logo. I just made logos. And then I made software. And then I made web sites. And now I make software again. No goals in the process that I remember.
I just worked at whatever I was working on and ended up wherever I am. I continue to approach work and life that same way today.
If I’ve used the word goal, I didn’t mean it that way. It was just the word I picked, a synonym for something else.
I really like what Jim Coudal said about goals:
“The reason that most of us are unhappy most of the time is that we set our goals not for the person we’re going to be when we reach them, but we set our goals for the person we are when we set them.
That pretty much sums it up for me.
大意汇总：
我不记得自己有什么目标，那种很具体的目标。
有些事情我一直想做，但如果不做，我也能接受。有些事情值得去做，但如果没有做到，我也不觉得很遗憾。
我的目标不是那样。
我做事，我尝试，我建造，我想要取得进步，我想让我做的东西使得自己、使得公司、使得家庭、使得社会变得更好。但我从未设定过目标。这不是我做事的方式。
目标是当你到达时就会消失的东西。一旦你到达了，它就消失了。你总是可以设置另一个，我只是不按这样的步骤行事。
我只是做我正在做的事情，然后就到了现在的地方。今天我继续以同样的方式对待工作和生活。
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