If you search on a search engine for "no goals" or "life without goals" you get some sites that emphasize the importance of setting and achieving goals, but there are some other voices who say that setting goals is often an issue for them, so they try to live without goals.
Some of the problems they indicate are that goals often end up being achieved differently or on a different schedule, so it seems pointless to set goals, or they can get things done without making it in to a "goal".
I was curious if you've seen this philosophy and experimented with it: what are your opinions on "living without goals"?
Well I was thinking about this a bit and the problem is, things change, so then people say to set "flexible goals", but sometimes it continues almost to the point where it makes a person question "why bother setting goals at all?"
For example, the man who marries and through no fault of their own is divorced; the person who works in an industry that gets disrupted by technology and has to find a new line of work; the person whose political candidate lost so they think they just need to "vote harder next time" and then they realize things are a lot more complicated...
> do not recommend being goalless because that's the equivalent of just letting things fall on your lap
sometimes it's just semantics, it doesn't mean people can't have consistent principles or values to live by or that they don't strive to do things; it may simply be questioning the process of how some people set and work towards certain goals and are trying to argue for a better process or view of "goals"