I honestly think it is debatable whether Operation Save Darth Vader's Soul rises to the level of a "goal" as opposed to a dream. Like, it's easy to read what he did in RotJ as making mad choices in order to achieve that, but actually what he did was a) volunteer to help his friends destroy the shield bunker; b) realize he shouldn't have done that, because Darth Vader will be able to sense him there, and that will blow the operation; c) use the most expedient method possible to prevent Vader from realizing there is a Rebel commando team on Endor and acting on that knowledge.
Like, if you don't believe Vader can sense him in the Force (like everybody else on Endor) it looks like he's just throwing himself at Vader for no reason, and it was all irrelevant anyway because the whole thing was a trap, and his *method* for distracting Vader was in fact "attempt to turn him to the light" (which was objectively unreasonable) but at no point did he wake up in the morning and say "Today is the day I attempt to turn Vader back to the light," and I think if the mission had gone as planned, he had never left Endor and Lando had blown the Death Star with both Vader and Palpatine on in, Luke would have been a bit said but still considered all goals accomplished.
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Like, if you don't believe Vader can sense him in the Force (like everybody else on Endor) it looks like he's just throwing himself at Vader for no reason, and it was all irrelevant anyway because the whole thing was a trap, and his *method* for distracting Vader was in fact "attempt to turn him to the light" (which was objectively unreasonable) but at no point did he wake up in the morning and say "Today is the day I attempt to turn Vader back to the light," and I think if the mission had gone as planned, he had never left Endor and Lando had blown the Death Star with both Vader and Palpatine on in, Luke would have been a bit said but still considered all goals accomplished.