Personally, I think the overjustification effect happens to me a lot, and it would have been better if I had considered that before taking the pledge (though I’m fairly confident I would have taken it anyway). Thanks for writing about that.
However, I’m not too worried about the loss of flexibility, primarily because I don’t see the commitment as that hard. I believe that the pledge is reasonable and lenient in cases like the ones you describe, especially increasing expenditures. I’m not sure where I got this belief from—I think it was something from the Giving What We Can website? In any case, if that’s the norm around the pledge, I don’t think the loss of flexibility should be that important.
Personally, I think the overjustification effect happens to me a lot, and it would have been better if I had considered that before taking the pledge (though I’m fairly confident I would have taken it anyway). Thanks for writing about that.
However, I’m not too worried about the loss of flexibility, primarily because I don’t see the commitment as that hard. I believe that the pledge is reasonable and lenient in cases like the ones you describe, especially increasing expenditures. I’m not sure where I got this belief from—I think it was something from the Giving What We Can website? In any case, if that’s the norm around the pledge, I don’t think the loss of flexibility should be that important.