What I
listened to
Listening to native speaker is
difficult for me. Therefore,I choose to write about something I listen to on
this blog since I want to practice and improve my listening skill. Yesterday, I listened many interesting video clips on www. ted.com but I think the most interesting
video clip is “Keep your goals to yourself” by Derek Sivers . I interested in this title because I believe everyone has
goals in life and want to achieve their goals. So, everyone in class willl get some good ideas from this
talk show.
What it
says
On this talk show, Derek Sivers suggest us that we should keep our
goals to ourselves and explain us why our goals are less to happen when we
telling someone. Moreover, he also shows us an
interesting experiment about this topic.
My
response
It is my belief that everyone in the World has their
goals and try to achieve them . I have a lot of goals in my life for example, be healthier,
successful in my career and travel around the world with my family. From the
TED talk I have listened, the speaker said that we should not tell our goals to
anyone .There have been both pros and cons about keeping your goals to yourself.
There are many reasons for the idea
of keeping your goals to yourself. To begin with, the people who keep their
goals to themselves will not get criticism from other people if they can’t
reach their goals. Another reason is that if we don’t tell
our goals to everyone ,there are no expectations from the others which can make
us stress and anxious. Finally, when we don’t tell them to others , it makes us
think its not already done so, we will have more motivation to do the work.
This is look like what Derek Sivers said.
However, some people argue against the idea of keeping your goals
to yourself. Firstly, when we tell our goals to someone ,it motivates us to
keep our word. Secondly, if you tell your goals to the expert , they may give you some good advices that make you success
and achieve your goals.
Having considered all of the above facts , I am in favor of
the idea of keeping your goals to yourself as it can cause more advantages than
disadvantages. Do you agree or disagree with this topic?
Everything has two sides but I incline to keep my goals to myself because I do not want a lot of pressure from people who knows that and I do not need them to judge me. It can make me stressed.
ReplyDeleteThe dangers of "social reality"!
ReplyDeleteI had previously enjoyed some of Sivers' other TED Talks, so I decided to follow the link to Kaimook's source and listen to this one. I like the fact that he has solid scientific support for his ideas right from the start: If you feel good because everyone congratulates you on setting such wonderful goals, that already discourages you from making the effort to actually achieve the goals! And the studies back this up.
The opposite also sounds reasonable: if you tell people what you have decided to do, that expectation will motivate you to act. But the statistics tell us which reasonable sounding idea is actually the correct one.
Like his others, I found this talk by Sivers both informative and upbeat, with very practical applications to my life. Thank you Kaimook for bringing it to my attention.
So if you decide to blog twice daily to improve your English across a range of skills, it's OK to keep that goal secret.
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