"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it." - Arnold Toynbee
It's like me and basketball.. if I shoot for the basket, I miss but if I shoot father, into a harder goal, the ball falls into the basket. I guess the moral is you should always shoot a little farther.