Challenge yourself enough but not too much

A team of psychology experimenters wished to find out the behavior of successful people. They told the experimental subjects to play a game where they had to throw a ring onto a peg (like horseshoe game).

The subjects were never told how far to stand from the peg when throwing the rings. One group went too near and would throw every ring onto the peg. They set their goal way to easy and soon they were bored and gave up.

Another group threw from a great distance and never made a good throw.  These set their goal way too hard and again after a little while of "failure" they gave up.

The third group started somewhere and if they were too far back they would come nearer until they could had some good throws. Others of this group might start too near but would move away until there were some failures. Now as a certain distance became easy the successful people increased the distance until once again the task became challenging.

This group were the winners in life. They did not take life so easily that they were not challenged. Neither did they attempt the impossible so they would give up. They were realistic. They used feedback to set their target difficulty so they were always challenged. As their skill increased they increased the difficulty so they would always remain challenged.

We have heard so much about goal setting but the real trick is not mere setting of goals and writing them down, but goal achievement. The successful people changed their aims based on external facts. You need to keep yourself challenged. If the task is too easy do something harder and if it is too hard take on an easier task.

Flexibility and dynamism in our goals is a great part of happy successful goal achievement. Be like the winners: challenge yourself enough but not too much .

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