Choose the correct option to complete the sentences.
- Psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal make it less/more likely to happen.
- Because you feel satisfaction after telling someone you are less/more motivated to do the hard work necessary.
- Conventional wisdom tells us that we should/shouldn't share our goals.
Complete the summary of the talk with these words:
plans - proves - secret - suggestions - tests
Derek Sivers says it’s better to keep our goals __________. He claims that telling people our __________ tricks our minds so that we think we have already achieved our goal. He describes an experiment that __________ this claim, which compares two groups of people doing some __________. He concludes by making a few __________ to help us achieve our goals.
Vocabulary
Signposts are sentences or phrases that speakers use to begin a new section of their talk. They usually give the listener some idea of the things that the speaker is going to say next. for example, a speaker might say, “So let’s look at what we've learned here,” and then go on to summarize what he or she has just said.
Watch the video and check the signposts Sivers uses in his talk.
Do you like to plan ahead for things you want to do in your life? If so, what kinds of things?
Do you intend to tell other people about your plans and goals for the future?