PART TWO

                   WANTS, ABILITIES, AND GOALS
     The machinery for evaluative analysis described in Part I 
requires that you know your goals and can specify your criterion 
of success.  But as we struggle with the toughest decisions in 
our personal and professional lives, we often find that we are 
unsure of our goals.  Therefore, the next three chapters tackle 
the problem of selecting our goals. 
     There are two main inputs for selecting goals:  1) Our 
desires, whose satisfaction constitute benefits for us. The most 
important and fundamental of these wants, apart from sheer 
subsistence, are the general desires that we call our values.  2) 
Our human and physical resources, which enable us to work toward 
satisfying our desires, and the usage of which constitute costs 
(though using our talents may also be a benefit, which is one of 
the interesting complications in choosing goals).  These topics 
are discussed in Chapters 21 and 22, respectively.  Chapter 23 
discusses how to combine values and capacities into goals.

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