The term goals was virtually nonexistent before 1920. On a graph, looking at any mention of the word in all of literature across the board, it's pretty much a flat line–until 1920, when it started to uptick and has continued to shoot up and to the right for the past ninety to one hundred years.
Yet generations before us built countries without goal-setting. Electricity and the lightbulb were invented without bullet journals. New modes of transportation like the locomotive train, and the cross-country tracks that allowed unheard-of travel across the new frontier, were created without New Year's resolutions.[…]
