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职场发展初级02:59goal setting

Keep your goals to yourself

别急着把目标说出口

德里克·西弗斯用三分钟讲了一个反常识的结论:把目标说出口、收获祝贺,大脑会误以为事情已经做成,你反而更难真正完成它。他用几项心理学实验佐证,并给出一句不带满足感的替代说法。语速平缓、结构清晰,适合初学者练听力与目标管理表达。

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台词(25 句)

00:04
Everyone, please think of your biggest personal goal. For real -- you can take a second. You've got to feel this to learn it.

请大家想一想自己最大的人生目标。认真想——你可以花几秒钟。你得真切地感受到它,才能学到这一课。

00:11
Take a few seconds and think of your personal biggest goal, okay? Imagine deciding right now that you're going to do it.

花几秒钟,想想你个人最大的目标,好吗?想象你此刻就决定:你要去做这件事。

00:18
Imagine telling someone that you meet today what you're going to do. Imagine their congratulations, and their high image of you.

想象你把自己要做的事告诉今天遇到的某个人。想象他们的祝贺,以及你在他们心中的高大形象。

00:25
Doesn't it feel good to say it out loud? Don't you feel one step closer already, like it's already becoming part of your identity?

大声说出来是不是感觉很好?你是不是已经觉得离目标近了一步,仿佛它正在变成你身份的一部分?

00:32
Well, bad news: you should have kept your mouth shut, because that good feeling now will make you less likely to do it.

然而坏消息是:你本该闭口不谈,因为此刻这种良好的感觉,反而会让你更不容易去做成它。

00:41
The repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.

反复的心理学实验已经证明:把目标告诉别人,反而会让它更难实现。

00:47
Any time you have a goal, there are some steps that need to be done, some work that needs to be done in order to achieve it.

任何时候你有一个目标,都得走一些步骤、做一些实际的工作,才能把它实现。

00:53
Ideally you would not be satisfied until you'd actually done the work. But when you tell someone your goal and they acknowledge it, psychologists have found that it's called a "social reality."

理想情况下,只有真正做完那些工作,你才会感到满足。但当你把目标告诉别人、他们也认可了,心理学家发现,这被称为一种「社会现实」。

01:02
The mind is kind of tricked into feeling that it's already done. And then because you've felt that satisfaction, you're less motivated to do the actual hard work necessary.

大脑就这样被骗了,感觉事情好像已经完成。而正因为你尝到了那份满足,你反而没那么有动力去做真正必需的苦功。

01:11
(Laughter) So this goes against conventional wisdom that we should tell our friends our goals, right?

(笑声)这就与「我们应该把目标告诉朋友」这一常识背道而驰,对吧?

01:16
So they hold us to it. So, let's look at the proof.

这样他们就能督促我们。那么,我们来看看证据。

01:21
1926: Kurt Lewin, founder of social psychology, called this "substitution."

1926 年,社会心理学的创始人库尔特·勒温把这称为「替代」。

01:25
1933: Wera Mahler found when it was acknowledged by others, it felt real in the mind.

1933 年,薇拉·马勒发现:当目标被他人认可,它在大脑里就感觉像真的实现了。

01:30
1982, Peter Gollwitzer wrote a whole book about this, and in 2009, he did some new tests that were published.

1982 年,彼得·戈尔维策就此写了一整本书;2009 年,他又做了一些新实验并发表了结果。

01:37
It goes like this: 163 people across four separate tests.

实验是这样的:163 个人,分成四组独立的测试。

01:42
Everyone wrote down their personal goal. Then half of them announced their commitment to this goal to the room, and half didn't.

每个人都写下自己的目标。然后一半人当众宣布了对这个目标的承诺,另一半人没有。

01:51
Then everyone was given 45 minutes of work that would directly lead them towards their goal, but they were told that they could stop at any time.

接着每个人都拿到 45 分钟、能直接推动目标进展的工作,但被告知随时可以停下来。

01:57
Now, those who kept their mouths shut worked the entire 45 minutes on average, and when asked afterward, said that they felt that they had a long way to go still to achieve their goal.

那些闭口不谈的人,平均把 45 分钟全部做满;事后被问起时,他们说自己觉得离目标还有很长的路要走。

02:07
But those who had announced it quit after only 33 minutes, on average, and when asked afterward, said that they felt much closer to achieving their goal.

而那些宣布过目标的人,平均只做了 33 分钟就放弃了;事后被问起时,他们却说自己觉得离目标近多了。

02:16
So if this is true, what can we do? Well, you could resist the temptation to announce your goal.

那么如果这是真的,我们能怎么做?你可以抵住宣布目标的诱惑。

02:24
You can delay the gratification that the social acknowledgment brings, and you can understand that your mind mistakes the talking for the doing.

你可以推迟社会认可带来的那份满足感,并且明白:大脑会把「说了」误当成「做了」。

02:33
But if you do need to talk about something, you can state it in a way that gives you no satisfaction, such as,

但如果你确实需要谈起它,可以换一种不会带来满足感的说法,比如:

02:39
"I really want to run this marathon, so I need to train five times a week and kick my ass if I don't, okay?"

「我真的很想跑完这场马拉松,所以我得每周训练五次;要是我没做到,你就踢我一脚,好吗?」

02:46
So audience, next time you're tempted to tell someone your goal, what will you say?

所以各位观众,下次当你忍不住想把目标告诉别人时,你会说什么?

02:50
(Silence) Exactly! Well done. (Laughter) (Applause)

(沉默)完全正确!做得好。(笑声)(掌声)