Re: POL Re: Ethanol Powered Aircraft

Actually it's most people compared to what the sociologists use for a
definition.

So you're saying most people misuse a technical term that resembles a plain English expression. No surprise there.

Many are success oriented without even knowing it. Most of us set
small goals each day, or week, or month.

What would make them "goal oriented" or not, IMHO (and using the technical term as best I can) would be whether =having= the goal is important in itself (it doesn't matter what it is), or whether achieving a particular result is important (which implies having that result as a goal).

It's hard to achieve anything meaningful without setting (it as) a goal. However, it is easy to set goals without achieving anything meaningful.

That said, having goals helps focus a person, or a nation, and focus is important to achieving something. Goals are not the only way to focus - having enemies allows one to focus hatred, and that is a very common political tactic. This focus then reduces the field of viable goals to be the ones that fit that hatred. I would not call such a situation "goal oriented" or "success oriented".

Jose
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