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From my understanding, Adams is talking about clearly defined outcomes such as "lose 50 pounds" verses targets "get healthier" and is suggesting that it's better to have targets and then devise systems to get you incrementally closer to the target.

In this vein, there's a good quote from Elon Musk in Everyday Astronaut's interview with him at Starbase: "A guided missile is going in the wrong direction at any given point in time, but it course-corrects.

You don't want to be a super precise cannonball when you don't even know where the target is."