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

Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by taeric on Thursday September 26, 2019 @11:47AM (#21082079)

I'm interested in seeing that talk, if you can remember who it was. Or have a link.

I had thought the opposite was true. Announcing was supposed to be like committing. Curious if it just became a form of virtue signaling.

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Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by agota on Thursday September 26, 2019 @12:01PM (#21082273)

I'm not the person you replied to, but...

Could it be Derek Sivers' TED Talk "Keep your goals to yourself"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHopJHSlVo4

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Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by milohax on Thursday September 26, 2019 @05:43PM (#21085880)

I haven't watched this (I'm on a bus, bandwidth concerns) but the title just made me think: "yes, keep your goals to myself. In a diary. That way I won't be demotivated by premature announcement, yet I'll be bursting to have something to show when I make progress"

Promissing to ones self, for me at least, is a motivator because I trust myself more, and the trust is reinforced as I complete goals. But announcing "I'm doing this thing" either causes anxiety, or demotivates nectar is already our there, as the article describes.

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