Get Inspired - #2 Should I tell people about my ideas or not?

One problem most people face when they think of a brilliant idea or set a goal is; whether they should tell people about their goals and ideas or should they keep it to themselves until they achieved their goal or idea.

Being realistic, there are two things that people are going to tell you about how to set goals.

In the first camp; some people are going to say “Hey, when you’ve got a goal or an idea, don’t tell anybody. Keep your ideas secret, don’t tell people your goals, they are going to steal your ideas, they are going to shit in your goals, they are going to tell you,  you can’t be successful at it.” And yes that’s going to happen. It will.

But then, there is this other camp which is when you have an idea, a business idea, what you want to do with your life; Share it with lots of people.

The reason why you should share it with lots of people is because you are going to get good feedback and ideas.

But there’s another reason why it’s really important to share it with other people once you’ve made a decision about what you are going to do. And that is because you create a mental contract. You now have social pressure on you to go through that thing you said you were going to do. And if you are a person with any integrity whatsoever and you tell all these people in your life, I’m going to do this. And you don’t do it; you are going to look and feel really stupid.

I’ll recommend that when you conceive an idea and you think it’s really great, you should tell someone. Don’t be scared of what might happen, tell someone, tell people, get good feedback and start taking action towards achieving your goals and ideas immediately.

“You have to share the vision… When you get [people] to march in the same direction, you can really move mountains together.” - Carl Henric Svanberg

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