Wasn't there a study that found if you tell people you're working on something, you get the same brain reward chemicals as if you actually did it and told everyone? So if you tell people before you're done, you might just go "meh, I'm good, the rest sounds hard". Or something like that.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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When you tell anyone about your personal projects, you'll lose ~90% of the motivation to finish the project.