Kirsty the Scientist

There was a video I watched a couple of months ago with an idea that's really stuck with me!  It's a video from another one of my favourite youtubers, Leena Norms ( justkissmyfrog ) where she talks about the idea that by telling others about your plans, you get the same satisfaction from the pleasing of others just by telling them, and you end up not doing the plan itself! Here's the video:  She describes the idea as a 'getting fulfillment from something without doing the thing' - the social 'praise' from telling your peers and others about something you want to do, but then you don't carry out the idea.  I think this is a really interesting thing - especially as I think I experienced this when I started this blog, although I didn't really realise or think about it at the time! I kept the blog to myself for the first few weeks, only telling friends and family once I'd written 2 weeks of posts! Initially after telling people about the blo