Originally posted by Posporo
...analysis, analogy, these are all anal/reverse-mechanisms...don't stick your finger up your ass to forsee how your next session will come out ("setting goals")...prediction is the same as predetermined limitation...f@ck that...goals are alright for one thing - technique, but that is the same as having a goal of being another Yngwie or another whoever - only without goals can you actually achieve something...

Oh my god, I'm sorry to use such a word, but that's the most stupid bull**** I have ever seen on that board. Unless you want to play [I have no disrespect to any of the following music, I only think they are more linked to youth political thinking/ideas than music] alternative/punk/garage music throughout your life, and then become the school's janitor that plays the guitar at friend's parties, you need to set goals.
How do you get anywhere if you don't know where you are, and where you are going to get through?

By the way, I don't think I'm right and you're wrong. I'm teaching music for a living, it's what I have taught to dozens of students, and that's what I was taught by seasoned pros.
I only ear this kind of thing (no goals) in rehearsal places, not in actual places where bands play concerts...