"Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. After my second startup collapsed - 18 months of work, investor money gone, debt piling up like snow on a bad roof - I did something that worried everyone who knew me. I stopped talking about my next big thing. I stopped going to networking events. I deleted most of my social media. I started working out at weird hours and reading books that had nothing to do with business. My friends"
"This is usually the first thing people notice, and the first thing they misread. Someone who used to talk about their goals, share their projects, pitch their ideas at dinner - suddenly goes quiet. From the outside, it looks like defeat. Like they've stopped dreaming. But here's the kicker: research actually suggests this is a smart move. A study by Peter Gollwitzer and colleagues published in Psychological Science found that when people announce their intentions publicly,"
After a second startup collapsed with investor funds gone and mounting debt, the narrator withdrew from networking, social media, and public promotion of future plans. Friends and family misread the retreat as depression while the narrator used the time to dismantle prior assumptions and reevaluate identity and priorities. Rebuilding after a major failure appears boring and confusing rather than cinematic, often resembling quitting to outside observers. The narrator intentionally stopped broadcasting intentions because research shows publicizing goals can create a premature sense of completeness. A study by Peter Gollwitzer and colleagues in Psychological Science found that announcing intentions publicly can substitute social recognition for actual effort, undermining follow-through.
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