I love this! I tell people all the time that you have autonomy and instead of blaming everything on the other players and the game, we need to look at the choice we made. It’s ok but at some point we had to make the decision.
I was reading this exact section in your book this morning so clearly you writing this as a substack article is not a simple coincidence in my life but rather a reminder that I need to focus on building a resilient schedule that plans for the known unknowns. As a mom, those are inevitable!
Yes! We have an optimism bias, a tendency to overestimate how well things will go. And the best-evidenced correction for that is to get into the habit of performing a pre-mortem. Ask yourself not what could go wrong but rather, "Let's imagine this goes spectacularly wrong — how does that come about?"
I love this! I tell people all the time that you have autonomy and instead of blaming everything on the other players and the game, we need to look at the choice we made. It’s ok but at some point we had to make the decision.
I was reading this exact section in your book this morning so clearly you writing this as a substack article is not a simple coincidence in my life but rather a reminder that I need to focus on building a resilient schedule that plans for the known unknowns. As a mom, those are inevitable!
Yes! We have an optimism bias, a tendency to overestimate how well things will go. And the best-evidenced correction for that is to get into the habit of performing a pre-mortem. Ask yourself not what could go wrong but rather, "Let's imagine this goes spectacularly wrong — how does that come about?"