Self Link: Systems Over Goals
- Success depends on your systems, not goals.
- Both successful and unsuccessful people have the same goals.
- The difference is the systems/processes employed.
- Goals are temporary changes. Systems lead to long-term repeatable changes.
- Focusing on goals leads to abandoning the process after the goal is achieved.
- The purpose of goals is to win the game.
- The purpose of a system is to continue playing.
- You do not rise to the level of your goals, but fall to the level of your systems.
It is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.
Building a Second Brain talks about how maintaining a system to take notes and manage knowledge can help produce more creative outputs. It also says creativity is a product of the creative process.