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Str8 Xronic stuff 
Adapted from ‘
The Great Escape’ by 
Geoff Thompson
 
 There was a very famous survey carried out many years agoin Harvard. Harvard is renowned as one of the topuniversities in the world, attended by the elite, the cream of society. The survey was really just a general series of questions that asked each and every student their views ona number of unrelated topics. The responses caused quite astir amongst the lecturers, particularly to the questions:1) Do you have goals?2) Do you write your goals down?When all the papers were gathered together and theanswers logged, the lecturers were taken aback.Approximately 15 per cent of those surveyed had goals andof this small percentage (this was Harvard after all, aUniversity that prided itself on having the top people in thecountry) only a handful actually took the trouble to writetheir goals down.As I said, the lecturers were both surprised and disappointed,but at that time, the survey was shelved. Many years later,at a staff meeting, the survey was brought up by one of thelecturers. ‘Why not,’ he suggested, ‘do the survey again tosee whether the people we attract at Harvard today are anymore or any less goal-orientated than they were at the timeof the original survey?’Someone else said, ‘Well, if we are going to do that let’sthrow a bit of money at it and trace the students from theoriginal survey and see how their lives unfolded.’It was agreed. The money was raised and the originalstudents were traced and asked: Did you achieve the goalsyou set as a student? And those that did not have goals atthe time were asked: How did your life pan out?Amazingly, they found that 95 per cent of those who had notset goals had not achieved anything significant and were notfinancially independent. Of the 15 per cent who had setgoals, 80 per cent achieved them, and of those few thatactually wrote down their life goals, all had achieved themand all were financially independent.
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