Why Goal Setting Sucks by Hutton George

Author:Hutton, George [Hutton, George]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

Trade Minded

We are social creatures because we are hard wired to do things in groups. We get more done on teams than we do alone. Meeting and making friends is pleasurable. Look at any point in history and find any place where they put kids during the day, and you'll find natural friend making behavior. Nobody needs to teach kids how to make friends. Most kids do it naturally. This means meeting people and making friends must be an instinct. An instinct that involves communication and finding potential partners for yet to be determined tasks. We all evolved from people that found it better to trade bears for fish than try to get everything done on their own. Instincts compel us by making us feel good when we obey them. So ancient humans didn't need to think about economics when they traded bears for fish. They did it because it felt good. We can describe this trading instinct as a meta instinct that makes us find people to share our burden with. To find people to create a mutually acceptable division of labor. Where we all do what we do best as part of a group that is getting it done. This feels good, and it feels good to find potential friends even if there is no task at hand. That might not even be true. Since we all have unmet desires in the forefront of our minds, perhaps we are always programmed to always be looking for new teammates, so we may pool our efforts, and figure out ways we can get more of our collective desires done with less effort and less time.

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