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

Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by hollerith on Thursday September 26, 2019 @05:13PM (#21085618)

I am skeptical. Human desires are a thing, and I am going to continue to assume that there is a good reason they are a thing until I have a very detailed and very well tested explanation for why there is no harm in replacing all of my desires with plans.

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Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by milohax on Thursday September 26, 2019 @05:36PM (#21085814)

I think I understand you. At a lower level, there is a very good reason why, during our teenage years, we develop our prefrontal cortex to moderate between our desires and our actions (and why for all of us, going from childlike "I see, I want, I do" to adult "I see, I want, I plan, I evaluate, I might do") is so traumatic.

That, or you've made a subtle joke which I'm not quite seeing :-)

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