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Hey it's Angela here again.

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And of course I'm here to congratulate you on completing yet another module if you keep showing up like

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this and if you keep just doing the work then I'm pretty sure you're going to get there and you're going

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to be able to achieve those goals that you set out at the beginning of the course.

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Now today I want to talk about a way of using sort of public judgment in your favor.

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So the idea is that you know when you set out a goal for yourself and the only person that knows about

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it is you.

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It's very easy to say like actually you know it doesn't really matter.

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Like if I achieve it or not like I don't want to stress myself out too much it doesn't matter.

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But if you actually declare it publicly.

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If you say to your friends like I am going to be able to build this thing that I want to build I am

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going to learn how to code I am going to I don't know go to the gym every day.

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Then you have some accountability right to other people not just yourself.

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And I think as humans we find it much harder to deal with like public embarrassment or public scorn

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when you declare that you're going to do something like I'm going to quit smoking.

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And then the next time they see you you're like you know smoking away.

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It's it's much harder to do basically.

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So one of the ways that you can use other people's help in motivating yourself is to just declare it

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public.

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Go on Facebook on Twitter.

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Tell your friends like I am going to work one hour a day on learning how to code for 100 days and I'm

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going to check in every day and post my progress.

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In fact a lot of people already do this.

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And so if you hang on to Twitter and you look at the hashtags coding you be at 100 days of code you'll

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see a lot of people document that journey like everything that they've done during the hour and they

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post every day so that a they have a track record of what they've done every day to learn to code.

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But also you have loads of people cheering you on you know like it's hard.

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Everybody knows that it's hard and everybody who's going in going through it together will try to help

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you out.

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So try to declare publicly your intention your goal and then go onto Twitter and use those hashtags

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coding you be hundreds of code to try and reach out basically to a community of really encouraging people

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who will be there alongside me telling you that you can do it.

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And I think it's really really powerful when you can tap into that resource.

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So have a go at that.