Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them (2009)

Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by SkyTreasure on Thursday September 26, 2019 @11:16AM (#21081653)

So true it happens to me many times. When I tell about the new idea or half done projects I feel less motivated to complete it.

So right now my lips are sealed on the current project that I am working and it's coming in good shape as of now

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Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by zikani_03 on Thursday September 26, 2019 @01:04PM (#21082966)

This happens to me too, and it's doubly worse when I've made a little progress on a project in addition to telling/showing someone.

For example, a couple of days ago, I implemented a 'MVP' for a sweet (my opinion ;) IntelliJ plugin[1], but since telling/showing co-workers I lost the motivation that got me started on it.

[1]: https://github.com/nndi-oss/intellij-gensett

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Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by malux85 on Thursday September 26, 2019 @11:54AM (#21082194)

Did you just jinkx the “coming in good shape as of now” part because you announced it?

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Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by SkyTreasure on Thursday September 26, 2019 @12:12PM (#21082413)

Nope unless i tell what i am building its jinkx protected :D

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