Telling others what you're doing
I read somewhere, might have been on lw, that telling what you're doing might decrease your chance of success, because it provides a way to get compliments without actually having achieved anything yet. I suppose this depends on how you do it, though.
Introverts typically have lower time preference relative to extraverts, so ask them about how they dispel distraction.
I'm an introvert, have terrible problems with time-preference, and don't understand the rationalization by Dorothy Rowe you provide.
Any empirical sources for your claim?
Telling others what you're doing
I read somewhere, might have been on lw, that telling what you're doing might decrease your chance of success, because it provides a way to get compliments without actually having achieved anything yet. I suppose this depends on how you do it, though.
Gollwitzer et al. (2009). When intentions go public: Does social reality widen the intention-behavior gap?
Abstract (emphasis mine):
...Based on Lewinian goal theory in general and self-completion theory in particular, four experiments examined the implications of other peopl
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