This evening I have been watching a number of Ted Talks, and I just had to choose this one to share in this blog. I have always believed that keeping goals to myself helps them become a lot more achievable, and I am delighted to have found some actual research to support it!
I never told anyone I wanted to go to university, I just worked hard and applied. I never told anyone I planned on teaching, I just applied. This has always seemed to work for me. I'm a private person anyway, and I find it extremely frustrating when someone asks me a personal question. I always knew that I wanted to study a postgraduate teaching course, but I felt that this was no business of other people. For example, people would always ask "What are your plans when you graduate?". Some were genuinely interested, but others were just trying to get their noses into my life, so I would always reply with "I'm going to see how it goes and just focus on getting through my degree, for now." People would seem disappointed with this response. I was so terrified of failing and not being accepted onto my teaching course that I just couldn't tell anyone about it. Perhaps if I had, I wouldn't have succeeded, according to this talk!
Relating this to the law of attraction, I completely understand that telling someone about your goals can make you feel as though they are already accomplished. Just as believing you already have something attracts that thing into your life, telling someone your goals can have a similar effect. I know that a lot of people will disagree with it for various reasons, and it's all about personal opinions, but for me, I think it works in certain cases, however sometimes it's not possible to hide goals. It's definitely not possible for me to hide that my goal for this blog is to apply ICT to teaching!
Back to the point, I am considering showing talks such as this to my Welsh Baccalaureate students, particularly during their Personal Effectiveness skills work. They would benefit from some inspiration and definitely need a few lessons on positive thinking! So here is the talk, which is a delightful 3 minutes and 15 seconds!
What do you think?
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