In his blog today, Derek Sivers pointed to a study called When Intentions Go Public: Does Social Reality Widen the Intention-Behavior Gap? From this and similar studies Derek concluded that “people who talk about their intentions are less likely to make them happen.” Wray Herbert also offered similar advice in his Newsweek Mind Matters column.
This advice may be true for some intentions, but the blanket statement does not tell the whole story. The message should be to keep talking – but with the right type of goals. More specifically:
