That is why it is not necessary to share their plans Bashny.Net

"If you want to make God laugh - tell him about your plans" - the saying goes. Indeed, sometimes elaborate perspectives are broken due to unforeseen circumstances. Or a person withdraws from scheduled. It turns out that in the last century, this phenomenon has attracted the attention of many researchers.

It would seem that something outlining (buy a car or a house, go on holiday abroad, get married, start a business), it is logical to tell about it to friends and acquaintances that they supported us and were happy for us. However, in 1933 foreign psychologists have found that the more people we tell about their intentions, the less likely that they will be implemented.

What's the trick here? If we talk about its plans in advance, it is in our subconscious becomes a fait accompli. And once the goal has been reached unconsciously, then, respectively, in humans decreases motivation.

Professor of psychology at New York University Golluittser Peter touched on this topic in 1982 in his book "Symbolic self-filling". Not so long ago, he held a number of studies, which were attended by 63 people. It turned out that people who did not share his plans with others and do them more likely than those who publicly spoke about it and received the endorsement and support of others.

Professor Golluittser believes that its intentions story gives us a "premature sense of completeness." In our minds there are the so-called identity symbols that help us form an idea of ​​themselves. To this symbol originated not only need action, and just talk about them. Suppose you are told about his intention to write a thesis and presented himself a candidate or doctor of sciences. Brain imaging was satisfied with the game, and you have gone an incentive to do something to achieve this goal - to go to graduate school, seek a scientific leader, sitting in the library, gathering material and other



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