It's easy to fool ourselves. Two specific ways we improve our thinking process when we feel accountable to someone else for our results:
Digging into a paper written by Jennifer S. Lerner of Carnegie Mellon University and Philip E. Tetlock of The Ohio State University reviewing the findings of a study they did in 2003. Here's a quote I'd like to chat about:
Wilson Pickett was talking about goal-setting. For idealists, 99.5% is a different matter. Some people and some situations require a push. At 99.5% there's the realisation that sometimes good enough is good enough, and near perfect is better than good … Continue reading
