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公开宣布计划，会让你更没动力去完成它
Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them (2009)
2009 — 2019，它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
导读
这是 Derek Sivers 2009 年的一篇短文，介绍了心理学研究：把目标公开说出来会带来一种“社会认同感”，反而降低了实际去完成它的动力。文章建议把计划藏在心里，让完成目标本身成为满足感的来源。
为什么经久不衰：它触及一个几乎人人都有体会的心理现象，且不同人从评论中得出相反的实践经验，十年来反复引发讨论，至今仍是制定目标时值得参考的视角。
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把谈话的快感省下来，让实际进展成为唯一奖励
我称之为“秘密计划”。你得攒着那份情绪能量和奖励。很多项目里，谈论计划和畅想成果带来的神经化学反应，和实际取得进展带来的几乎一样。忍住不说，只把进展本身当作奖励，我通常能走得更远。项目也许还是会死掉，但那时我手里往往已经有些东西了，这比留下一群觉得我光说不做的人要有价值得多。
mbarronj查看英文原文
I call them "Secret Plans". You gotta save up the emotional energy and reward. On so many projects, you get the same neuro-chemical reward by talking about your project plans and how cool the result will be, as you do by making progress. By holding out, and only allowing progress itself to be a reward, and not just the talking, I usually get much further. The project may still die, but then I have something in my hands usually, and that's more rewarding than a bunch of people who think I only talk about things and never start/do any of them. . .
想法在萌芽期最脆弱，过早分享会让精力耗在辩护上
这让我想起 Sara Blakely 的话：“我很早就很谨慎地把它藏在心里，这是一种直觉——我相信想法在萌芽期最脆弱，本能会让你想立刻告诉朋友或丈夫，但那一刻自我就掺进来了，之后你会把所有时间花在为它辩护和解释上，而不是去实现它。”
nomilk查看英文原文
Reminds me of a quote from Sara Blakely: “I was very careful right away, it was a gut instinct that I had, to keep it to myself because I believe ideas are most vulnerable in their infancy, and it’s instinct to turn to your right or left in that moment and tell a friend, or tell your husband, and the moment you do that ego is invited into the mix, and then you end up spending all your time defending it, explaining it, and not pursuing it” How I Built This podcast (9m20s)
对外部认可敏感的人，公开承诺反而是有效动力
这很大程度上取决于你是否被外部认可驱动。对某些人来说，公开承诺后怕丢面子的恐惧，恰恰是完成高难度目标的足够动力。我就是用这个方法克服了独自开发第一个 App 时的拖延症，后来还融到了一百万美元风投。但依赖外部认可的坏处我吃过苦头：当你的自我提升类创业公司惨败时，你会真觉得自己是个废物。
mindgam3查看英文原文
This very much depends on how motivated you are by external validation. For some people, the fear of losing social capital by not following through on a public commitment is motivating enough to accomplish stretch goals. Source: used this technique to overcome my own procrastination trying to launch my first app as a solo founder. It worked, and I went on to raised a million VC to see if I could scale up the vision of a social goals app. The downside of relying on external validation, as I learned the hard way, is when your self improvement startup goes down in flames, you really feel like a fuckup.
公开承诺带来的羞耻压力可以转化为动力燃料
去年我参加 Ironman 铁人三项时，故意告诉了所有人。我拿这个冒险：如果没准备好或没完成，大家都会觉得我是个失败者，我把这种恐惧当作额外的动力燃料。出人意料的是，大多数人说我是白痴、根本完不成——这又是巨大的激励，我要证明他们眼光有多狭隘。这算是作弊，因为你在借助外部因素，但做非凡之事需要一切“帮助”。想想阿里备战福尔曼之战时，他向全世界公开承诺，这对他很有效。
Maro查看英文原文
When I did the Ironman last year, I told everyone about it: friends, family and co-workers. I did it on purpose. It was a risk I took, because would I have failed to prepare for the race or finish the race, everyone would have thought I'm a "looser" or "quitter". I used this fear as additional motivational fuel. Also, to my surprise, most people told me I'm an idiot for even attempting an Ironman and that I wouldn't be able to finish it. (Lesson learned: Culturally, here in Eastern Europe 'we' don't have the 'can do' attitude.) That was another huge boost, showing these people how limited their mindset is. It's kind of cheating, because you're using external factors to motivate you, but you need all the "help" to do extraordinary things. Think of Ali when he was preparing for the Foreman fight --- he used an entire nation to motivate him for the Rumble in the Jungle. Whenever he got a chance, he went on TV and said he would destroy Foreman. He absolutely commited himself in front of the entire world and it worked for him. Foreman, on the other hand, was different, he was more introverted, and although he lost that fight, he was still a great boxer. So, on a personal level, I strongly disagree with this article. I'd rather strive to be like Ali than accept some mediocre average. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5o-yxwBJuk
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