Avenue Of Goal

Beginning with the first sentence the authors indicates that man fools himself in order to appear as if he is headed toward the correct avenue to achieve some type of goal. This is basically judged based on the type of progress man has made such as taking the required steps to advance toward his goal is a basic illusion to himself and others. The author suggests that man cannot possibly make any progress toward a specific goal if the goal isn’t realistic or tangible. This basically indicates that you must have some type of goal in order for you not to fool yourself and any progress that you may think that you have. Your goal must be reasonable instead of infinite or too far to reach or even be real. The distance of the goal is one that has to be in reach …show more content…
The author also says that he goal and the distance is the “same”, which indicates that the goal is one that can be in reach instead of unrealistically further than you’re willing to achieve it. The author goes to state the factor of “deceptive satisfaction”. This factor is the same as making it seem as if your doing everything in your will power to achieve your goal such, but instead you are fooling yourself to believe that you are gaining some type of ground or progress that will indicate that you are closer to reaching your goal than you think. The author also introduces factors such as “pride” and “glances” in regard to goals, which aide in fooling man into believing that the goal is actually possible or close. However, pride is a issue that can cause man to imagine and project that he is the goal master. Pride will also make it extremely difficult to accept the reality of failure or the fact that their isn’t a tangible goal to be achieved. With