your goals in smash

[TaFoKiNtS]

learn the sheik-peach matchup (against spammy peaches)
beat 2 norcal ranked foxes in tourney
get on the top 15 rankings

 

[Adam M!]

hahahaha

i also have no idea (well, many ideas, but no concrete one) what "if you can't pinpoint where you achieve it" actually means

ps jkun is gonna be a beast

 

[HyugaRicdeau]

It means being able to tell if you've succeeded or not, i.e., if you had a list with that goal on it, knowing when you can cross it off. For example, just saying "get better at Melee" is not such a goal because how can you measure such a thing? Instead it's better to have a discrete goal that is representative of getting better at Melee. For example, one of Pocky's goals was to beat a ranked space animal with Sheik. But (I assume) it was his goal not for the explicit sake of beating a space animal but because it's an easily identifiable indicator of "getting better."

 

[SuperRad]

new goal:
beat sheridan's mario in a set

 

[Adam M!]

It means being able to tell if you've succeeded or not, i.e., if you had a list with that goal on it, knowing when you can cross it off.

you know you coulda just stopped here =P

 

[HyugaRicdeau]

Yeah but then you're still left with the question of how to go about achieving goals that aren't well-defined, since those are often the 'real' goals that we think of in our mind; so the point of the example was to show that even if the 'real' goal isn't well-defined, you can still achieve it by proxy of a discrete one.

 

[Adam M!]

hahahahahaahahaha

 

[darkatma]

wits are good