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a destination that exists only to be moved the moment you arrive.
means the result, target, or end point you're aiming for — whether a score in a game, a personal ambition, or the structure a ball must enter.
from From Middle English 'gol,' meaning a boundary or limit. Its earliest traces are murky, but it likely connects to an Old English root for a barrier or marker — the line you race toward. By the sporting age, that finishing-line idea hardened into the literal frame you must hit, and from there it stretched back into the figurative: any aim worth chasing.
- word origin
- From Middle English meaning boundary or limit.
- brain reward
- Dopamine spikes more from chasing than from finishing.
- writing it down
- Recording goals measurably raises odds of achieving them.
- soccer rarity
- Average match yields fewer than three goals.
- goalpost truth
- Moving them is psychology's favorite self-sabotage.