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Are goals killing the experience?
A goal-oriented society can easily kill the experience
I’ve been working in IT industry for more than 10 years. At the age of 34, I can say I have built a quite good experience in my field. I have experimented, tested and tried several things, but every time I moved an inch for doing something, somebody said to me: just focus on the goal.
Here it is. The goal, the geometrical center of our efforts. Goals are everywhere, like aliens of another galaxy that decided to take control over Earth. I see goals in my daily job, goals in the book industry, I follow goals when I write my articles and my books, I see goals when I go to the supermarket and buy something. Everything seems to be meaningful only if it helps to fulfill a goal.
Goals have actually become a new religion. I have seen several people being rewarded in different ways because they focused only on goals and, sometimes, they damaged other people in order to reach their target. Sometimes, people work from vacation or on the weekend not to miss a deadline. All necessary sacrifices for the goal god.
Let me say that, after 10 years, such people barely know anything. They are paid a lot, they have reached several goals, but they actually don’t know how to do anything else.