🔼: [[🛠️ Goals and Intentions]]
###### Compensatory Goal
A goal set to compensate for past failure(s).
These are really two goals in one:
1. Achieve the thing.
2. Make up for past failure(s).
These goals are born of [[⭐️ Emotions]] like [[💡 Shame|shame]] and [[💡 Resentment|resentment]] – they're driven by [[💡 Protector Parts|Protector Parts]] and our [[🔑 Exiles have a Drive For Redemption|🔑 Exiles' Drive for Redemption]]. They tend to be [[🛡️ Perfectionism|🛡️ perfectionistic]] and riddled with [[💡 Black-and-White Thinking|All-or-Nothing Thinking]], which can set us up for failure and encourage us to quit when things get tough or don’t go our way.
> [!example]
> Someone tries their best but fails a class.
> They think, “Next time I have to get an A.”
> Progress looks like from F to D, C, B, and then A.
> Aim for a C or B.
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