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Why You Should Stop Sharing Your Goals Publicly
What a 2009 study tells us about the danger of sharing your goals.
Should you publicly share your goals?
A 2009 study says that sharing your goals makes you less likely to accomplish them. You might have thought sharing your goals made you accountable. Not exactly how it works.
The more passionate you are about your goals, the more you should keep them secret. But why is it?
Why are we more likely to accomplish our goals if we keep them a secret?
The Science Behind Not Sharing Your Goals
Every time you share your goal, you feel like you get a bit of a reward.
You get positive feedback from others. You feel recognition and praise. This is how we get our dopamine reward.
As soon as we get that reward, we don’t feel as motivated. I mean, you’ve received encouragement from others. Your brain is tricked into believing that you’ve already accomplished your goal.
That’s why we may give up on some goals after sharing them with others. For instance:
- You give up exercising consistently because you shared and celebrated exercising with friends after a few weeks of intense…
