BEWARE OF YOUR GOALS

“How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time”.  
  / Thoreau/
Goal in life is ultimate necessity.  

What we do with the goals is also highly important. Be aware, whether you have a learning goal or proving goal.  
 In learning goal, you may focus on empowering yourself, mastering the task, increasing ability, and looking for higher challenging accomplishments. Failures won’t affect you because it will leave a lesson to you to proceed further. It won’t be a burden, which become obstacle to your growth. You may try to get the work done with some other method. You could concentrate on where thing went wrong and how could you correct it. You compare your previous performance, with your present one & recognize and appreciate yourself for your improvement. (Scoring better marks than previous test). 
 If your goal is proving one or performing, being superior and besting others. your focus will be in pleasing other, competing others, thinking about performing well, getting pleasant feedback, best at task in comparison to others. Presence of others would define your response. You may try to work hard in order to compete with other, or proving your ability to others. At times if you got failure, your failure will be attributed for your inability to do the task. You get shame of yourself. If you felt the task a complicated one, you may get back from the task and avoid the task itself. It will affect our further development. (Getting first rank in the class, if the class is filled with very dull students, we get pleased of the first rank even though we could improve further the meet our fullest potential).