Sonnet’s description is basically how I’d describe it. It’s somewhat related to wanting/liking but I don’t think I’d particularly emphasize those as a referrent here.
A reason to ask “what’s my goal” is to help prompt “what combinations of actions would help achieve this?”, some reasons to ask “what do I want?” is:
a sanity check against lost-purpose-goals. If you’re pursuing a mistaken goal or one someone else told you to pursue, there may not be a ground truth for “is this even a good goal?”. But, you can (hopefully) tell whether you actually want something, and if you notice you don’t actually want it, you might want to check in with “okay… what do I want?”
if you spend your whole life doing stuff you don’t actually want, you probably turn into a hollow shell-of-a-person, and I think there’s something, like, “nutritious” about making sure to do some things you want on a regular basis.
Sonnet’s description is basically how I’d describe it. It’s somewhat related to wanting/liking but I don’t think I’d particularly emphasize those as a referrent here.
A reason to ask “what’s my goal” is to help prompt “what combinations of actions would help achieve this?”, some reasons to ask “what do I want?” is:
a sanity check against lost-purpose-goals. If you’re pursuing a mistaken goal or one someone else told you to pursue, there may not be a ground truth for “is this even a good goal?”. But, you can (hopefully) tell whether you actually want something, and if you notice you don’t actually want it, you might want to check in with “okay… what do I want?”
if you spend your whole life doing stuff you don’t actually want, you probably turn into a hollow shell-of-a-person, and I think there’s something, like, “nutritious” about making sure to do some things you want on a regular basis.