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Podcast: Shark Theory
Episode: When Goals Become Gods: Taking the Watch Off
Description: When your goals start controlling you instead of guiding you, it's time to take the watch off. Show Notes: In this reflective episode of Shark Theory, Baylor Barbee opens up about losing a 290-day streak of 10,000 daily steps—thanks to a frozen watch update—and what the moment revealed about his relationship with goals. What started as a commitment to consistency had quietly turned into an obsession with perfection. Baylor unpacks how easily we can become slaves to our goals, chasing metrics, milestones, and "streaks" that look good on paper but pull us away from...