🔼: [[🛠️ Goals and Intentions]] ###### Fantasy-Based Goal Fantastical goals, dreaming big, aiming high. - Work out to get the perfect body - Become a multimillionaire - Become a professional athlete Most of the time these kinds of goals, desires, and dreams are okay. Though for some of us, when we translate them into practical goals with realistic milestones it drains our [[💡 Motivation|Motivation]] because one step looks like no progress at all. That doesn’t necessarily mean the goal should be discarded, though. We might imagine if all the food we’re going to eat during our lifetime were piled up in front of us — how motivated would we be to start? It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the task when we consider the entire journey at once. [[Video Games 🎮]] break down long-term fantastical goals into fragments (subquests) turning the long-term goals into fractals. They encourage a [[💡 Process Mindset|Process-Oriented Mindset]] where we focus on one step at a time, or maybe a few steps ahead, with the long-term goal in the background. This is so powerful that it can be predatory. Game designers create high motivation tasks without any tangible goal in order to keep people playing and maximize profit. [^1]: