Yeah, what I think happens is: Your brain doesn’t treat your goals as things to work towards. It treats your goals as things to tell people you’re working towards. (Near vs Far here, with goals being Far.) So if you’re not accomplishing your goals, your brain’s default is to feel bad about it, to make sure any nearby tribe members know how very guilty and ashamed you are for not accomplishing your goals. Your brain’s default is not to actually figure out how to change your behavior to get more goal-achievement, because, well, goals aren’t for accomplishing.
Yeah, what I think happens is: Your brain doesn’t treat your goals as things to work towards. It treats your goals as things to tell people you’re working towards. (Near vs Far here, with goals being Far.) So if you’re not accomplishing your goals, your brain’s default is to feel bad about it, to make sure any nearby tribe members know how very guilty and ashamed you are for not accomplishing your goals. Your brain’s default is not to actually figure out how to change your behavior to get more goal-achievement, because, well, goals aren’t for accomplishing.
Surely the brain thinks of something as being goals to actually work towards. If not, how do we ever get anything done?
Deadlines, which are near in time, and therefore get processed in near mode?