Meaning & use
goal driven person
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Meaning
nouncountable
Someone who is strongly motivated by clear aims and works hard to reach them.
Grammar: Countable: a goal driven person, two goal driven people.
Patterns
- a goal driven person
- be a goal driven person
She's a goal driven person who plans every step of her career.
As a goal driven person, he doesn't stop until the task is finished.
The coach likes working with goal driven people.
Word forms
| plural | goal driven people |
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Common combinations
- highly goal driven
- The new manager is highly goal driven.
- a goal driven approach
- They took a goal driven approach to training.
- naturally goal driven
- Some students are naturally goal driven.
- goal driven mindset
- A goal driven mindset helped her finish the course.
Synonyms and how they differ
- ambitious
- Focuses on wanting success and power, while goal driven stresses working toward specific targets.
- determined
- Emphasizes not giving up; goal driven adds the idea of having clear aims.
- motivated
- More general: it can mean eager for any reason, not only because of goals.
Opposites
Word family
- goal-driven adjective
- Having clear aims that guide your actions.
- goal noun
- Something you aim to achieve.
Commonly confused: goal driven person or goal-oriented person?
goal driven person vs goal-oriented person
Very similar, but goal-oriented often means someone who organizes work around targets, while goal driven stresses inner motivation.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'goal driven person' correctly?
Choose one answer.
A goal driven person is motivated by clear aims and works to reach them, so setting targets fits. The others describe the opposite behavior.
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