On this note, long time back I remember reading in one of the Sherlock Holmes' stories (good book for GRE, you know.. lot of good words) , his explanation about two types of reasoning called the "synthetic reasoning" and the "analyitcal reasoning". You see, lot of people, if given a chain of events, can tell what the end result is going to be. That is called "synthetic Reasoning". But very few people can tell the sequence of events and the root cause, given the end result, and that is called "analytical reasoning". Although this "analytics" is done everyday in fields of science and engineering and so on, we really do not do that in daily life, do we?
Now, applying that to GOALS, instead of setting a sequence of events and "expecting" a result to happen ( that's what we do most of the time), what if we start with the end result, and work backwards. You fix your goal as the "end result" and then work back wards and draw out steps which might have caused that thing to happen. And behold, you have a game plan.
Sounds very intelligent. huh! However, if you noticed, there is one catch in this. The catch is that, for this to work, you will have to be more than 100% sure of the "result ( goal)", as if it has already happened. Sherlock holmes, had atleast one end of the mystery fixed. But with this, you have both the ends open and you will have really be able to believe the result.
Now that is something we find it very hard to do, isn't it?
