Why you shouldn’t share your goals

The race to get the world’s first plane in the sky was a hard-fought battle between The Wright Brothers and a lesser-known gentleman by the name of Samuel Pierpont Langley. 

The world knows about the Wright brothers but the outspoken Pierpont Langley, who no one knows about, was about to take the honours of building the flying machine if he had kept quiet.

Early praise can leave the individual receiving the praise feeling like he or she has already won… in turn causing them to be less likely to follow through with their goals.

When we openly share our goals, we experience a feeling of success that normally only takes place upon completion of the goal.

The result? We don’t ever actually pursue the goal.