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Goals - Coggle Diagram
Goals
Imagine a goal
Personal
Feel you want it
Decide you'll do it
Telling someone your goal
they congratulate you
They think highly of you
feels good saying aloud
It's already becoming part of your identity
Social Reality
Sharing your goal prevents accomplishment
Not satisfied until goal started
Mind plays tricks
Giving feeling of being done
Less motivation to accomplish
Psychologists
Wera Mahler
Found when recognized by others it felt real
Peter Gollwitzer
Wrote a book in 2009 about testing
Kurt Lewin
Founder of social Psychology
Gollwitzer published test
Participants wrote down goals
Half shared
Felt closer to being done
Average Quit after 33 minutes
Other half didn't share
Felt they had a ways to go
Average worked 45 minutes
4 Separate tests
45 minutes
Resist
Tempting to share
Alter what you share
The satisfaction
Running a marathon
Train 5x week
Kick
$$
if not accomplished
What to do for next goal?
KEEP TO YOURSELF!