For businesses or any activity, there should be a targets or targets set to achieve.
What about piano playing, for those who do it for living and those who do it for pleasure (amateur)? If a target to be set, what would it be? Thinking differently about this questions, should a target be set in the first place?
It is easy to say a target can be winning a competition, but would that be a "good" tagret to aim at? It can lead to make means an end, which we should carefully avoid.
Instead, what about "expressing yourself by exploiting the instrument's potential to the fullest"? Would that serve as a "good" target for us amateurs? I do not think so, because it might be acceptable (or maybe the ideal) goal for any piano lovers, chances are slim that it would be a target that we can clearly visualize and focus our daily thinking and exercises toward achieving it (in this sense it is not "good" as a target) because it is too conceptual as "what" and "how" to achieve it greatly varies by for whom it means.
Appropriate target setting is possible only if there is a set path for attaining that goal that can be defined by humanly efforts.
