{"id":2388,"date":"2011-02-05T17:10:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T22:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/blog\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2011-02-05T17:10:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T22:10:34","slug":"zip-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/05\/zip-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Zip it"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone, but Derek Sivers says it&rsquo;s better to keep goals secret. He presents research stretching as far back as the 1920s to show why people who talk about their ambitions may be less likely to achieve them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/DerekSivers_2010G-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/DerekSivers-2010G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=947&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_yourself;year=2010;theme=unconventional_explanations;theme=how_we_learn;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=the_creative_spark;theme=a_taste_of_tedglobal_2010;theme=how_the_mind_works;event=TEDGlobal+2010;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" pluginspace=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgColor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"446\" height=\"326\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/DerekSivers_2010G-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/DerekSivers-2010G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=947&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_yourself;year=2010;theme=unconventional_explanations;theme=how_we_learn;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=the_creative_spark;theme=a_taste_of_tedglobal_2010;theme=how_the_mind_works;event=TEDGlobal+2010;\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I should have zipped it back in November&#8230;<br \/>\nOne of these days, I&rsquo;ll write a blog post about what happened when I gave NaNoWriMo a shot.<\/p>\n<p><em>Damn! I did it again and expressed a goal out loud! Now I&rsquo;ll never write that blog post!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone, but Derek Sivers says it&rsquo;s better to keep goals secret. He presents research stretching as far back as the 1920s to show why people who talk about their ambitions may be less likely to achieve them. I should have zipped&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/05\/zip-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zip it<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}