Keep your goals to yourself

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After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone, but Derek Sivers says it's better to keep goals secret. He presents research stretching as far back as the 1920s to show why people who talk about their ambitions may be less likely to achieve them.

Aired September 2, 2010

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    Carol Ann W
    This is so true I have experienced this myself, it becomes sort of self defeating when you acknowledge it to another, maybe the truth is one was never committed in the first place?
    appreciate appreciated
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