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What Got You Here Won't Get You There, Chapter 5

Chapter 5: The Twenty-First Habit: Goal Obsession

  • Goal obsession is not a flaw like the rest
  • “comes from misunderstanding what we want in our lives” (99)
  • “misunderstanding what others want us to do” (100)
  • Examples
    • Candace, the marketing executive
    • Colonel Nicholson, from The Bridge on the River Kwai
    • Wall Street Exec who kept getting divorced
    • Seminary students who failed to be good samaritans

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