WEBVTT 00:00:00.350 --> 00:00:01.610 - [Narrator] Welcome back. 00:00:01.610 --> 00:00:03.430 So we've learned that it's important 00:00:03.430 --> 00:00:05.670 to keep working through your frustrations 00:00:05.670 --> 00:00:07.328 by using the right learning strategies. 00:00:07.328 --> 00:00:09.295 The more you work through your frustration, 00:00:09.295 --> 00:00:11.024 the more your brain grows, right. 00:00:11.024 --> 00:00:14.740 But it can be difficult to work through that frustration 00:00:14.740 --> 00:00:16.370 without a clear direction. 00:00:16.370 --> 00:00:17.920 That's why it's important to make 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:19.300 smart goals. 00:00:19.300 --> 00:00:20.133 It's an acronym. 00:00:20.133 --> 00:00:21.890 It goes like this. 00:00:21.890 --> 00:00:23.100 Specific, 00:00:23.100 --> 00:00:24.270 measurable, 00:00:24.270 --> 00:00:25.320 actionable, 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:26.550 realistic, 00:00:26.550 --> 00:00:27.383 timely. 00:00:27.383 --> 00:00:28.216 Because look, 00:00:28.216 --> 00:00:29.360 you can wish all you want 00:00:29.360 --> 00:00:31.520 and say one day I'm gonna go to the moon. 00:00:31.520 --> 00:00:33.762 And you can want that like your life depended on it. 00:00:33.762 --> 00:00:35.300 But a wish 00:00:35.300 --> 00:00:36.590 is not a goal. 00:00:36.590 --> 00:00:37.890 An example of a moon plan 00:00:37.890 --> 00:00:39.320 that consists of smart goals 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:40.978 would go something like this. 00:00:40.978 --> 00:00:42.830 In 20 years, 00:00:42.830 --> 00:00:45.170 I will have studied enough physics and chemistry, 00:00:45.170 --> 00:00:46.930 flown jet planes in the Air Force, 00:00:46.930 --> 00:00:48.410 worked out four times a week, 00:00:48.410 --> 00:00:50.261 and gotten a job as a astronaut for NASA. 00:00:50.261 --> 00:00:53.165 And this will enable me to fly a spacecraft 00:00:53.165 --> 00:00:54.100 to the moon 00:00:54.100 --> 00:00:55.596 and put my feet on it for science reasons. 00:00:55.596 --> 00:00:57.840 Specific. 00:00:57.840 --> 00:00:59.960 Put your feet on the moon. 00:00:59.960 --> 00:01:00.793 Measurable. 00:01:00.793 --> 00:01:03.337 Are your feet touching the surface of the moon? 00:01:03.337 --> 00:01:04.780 Actionable. 00:01:04.780 --> 00:01:05.640 It is actionable, 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:07.070 that is to say doable, 00:01:07.070 --> 00:01:08.670 to study physics and chemistry, 00:01:08.670 --> 00:01:09.660 enlist in the Air Force, 00:01:09.660 --> 00:01:11.340 and go to the gym. 00:01:11.340 --> 00:01:12.500 Realistic. 00:01:12.500 --> 00:01:13.991 It's hard, but it's not impossible 00:01:13.991 --> 00:01:15.690 to become an astronaut. 00:01:15.690 --> 00:01:18.621 Timely, here's where more realism kicks in. 00:01:18.621 --> 00:01:20.470 You won't be able to go to the moon 00:01:20.470 --> 00:01:22.410 as an astronaut overnight. 00:01:22.410 --> 00:01:24.542 20 years seems a little more reasonable. 00:01:24.542 --> 00:01:26.800 But let's take this back to a more 00:01:26.800 --> 00:01:28.030 sensible time scale 00:01:28.030 --> 00:01:29.610 and look at our friend, Thinky Pinky. 00:01:29.610 --> 00:01:30.710 Hey buddy. 00:01:30.710 --> 00:01:32.700 TP here is interested in pull ups, 00:01:32.700 --> 00:01:34.690 wants to be able to lift their entire mass 00:01:34.690 --> 00:01:36.520 with just the arms, this one. 00:01:36.520 --> 00:01:38.113 But pull ups are hard. 00:01:38.113 --> 00:01:40.616 So let's take a look at Thinky Pinky's reflection journal. 00:01:40.616 --> 00:01:44.060 Quote, I want to be able to do 00:01:44.060 --> 00:01:46.780 two consecutive pull ups by the end of the year 00:01:46.780 --> 00:01:48.380 by practicing pull ups at the gym 00:01:48.380 --> 00:01:50.030 three times per week. 00:01:50.030 --> 00:01:52.440 Why is this a smart goal? 00:01:52.440 --> 00:01:54.820 S is for specific. 00:01:54.820 --> 00:01:56.640 TP wants to work on pull ups. 00:01:56.640 --> 00:01:59.330 And they're not interested in biking or weight training. 00:01:59.330 --> 00:02:01.020 There's one skill that Thinky Pinky 00:02:01.020 --> 00:02:01.930 wants to work on 00:02:01.930 --> 00:02:03.910 and that's pull ups. 00:02:03.910 --> 00:02:05.320 M is for measurable. 00:02:05.320 --> 00:02:06.938 What's the metric for TP's success? 00:02:06.938 --> 00:02:08.370 Two in a row. 00:02:08.370 --> 00:02:09.203 Two pull ups, 00:02:09.203 --> 00:02:10.640 one right after the other. 00:02:10.640 --> 00:02:12.850 You've either done it or you haven't. 00:02:12.850 --> 00:02:13.930 Measurable. 00:02:13.930 --> 00:02:15.540 A is for actionable. 00:02:15.540 --> 00:02:18.490 Can it be broken down into individual tasks. 00:02:18.490 --> 00:02:19.330 Yeah. 00:02:19.330 --> 00:02:21.350 Go into the gym three times a week to practice 00:02:21.350 --> 00:02:24.080 feels very actionable indeed. 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:26.060 R is for realistic. 00:02:26.060 --> 00:02:27.991 TP's not training to lift a car. 00:02:27.991 --> 00:02:29.761 Just some pull ups. 00:02:29.761 --> 00:02:32.300 T is for timely. 00:02:32.300 --> 00:02:34.010 There's a time limit on this. 00:02:34.010 --> 00:02:37.180 Thinky Pinky wants to do this in a year's time. 00:02:37.180 --> 00:02:39.961 All together, that's smart goal you got there, TP. 00:02:39.961 --> 00:02:42.500 With the power of persistence, 00:02:42.500 --> 00:02:44.780 smart goals, and the right kind of help, 00:02:44.780 --> 00:02:47.410 you can do anything you set your mind to. 00:02:47.410 --> 00:02:49.460 You can learn anything. 00:02:49.460 --> 00:02:50.513 Happy goal setting.