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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 ah, 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 go 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 #codingnewbie and #100DaysOfCode, you'll

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see a lot of people document their 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-- 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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#codingnewbie, #100DaysOfCode 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.