Not just the environment in which you share your goals, but also how you suspect you will react to the responses you get.
When reading through these two scenarios, I can just as easily imagine someone reacting in exactly the opposite way. That is, in the first case, thinking “gosh, I didn’t know I had so many supportive friends”, “I’d better not let them down”, and generally getting a self-reinforcing high when making progress.
Conversely, say phase 1 had failed and got the responses stated above. I can imagine someone thinking “hey my friends are a bunch of jerks” and “they’re right, I’m probably going to fail again”, and then developing a flinch thinking about weight loss, and losing interest in trying.
Not just the environment in which you share your goals, but also how you suspect you will react to the responses you get.
When reading through these two scenarios, I can just as easily imagine someone reacting in exactly the opposite way. That is, in the first case, thinking “gosh, I didn’t know I had so many supportive friends”, “I’d better not let them down”, and generally getting a self-reinforcing high when making progress.
Conversely, say phase 1 had failed and got the responses stated above. I can imagine someone thinking “hey my friends are a bunch of jerks” and “they’re right, I’m probably going to fail again”, and then developing a flinch thinking about weight loss, and losing interest in trying.
Certainly—when I describe the environment that is a factor that I assumed fit the label. Thank you for making it explicit.
yes. this is important and should be known generally.