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Dave and I discussed each one of his goals and made it as specific and measurable as possible. Dave made a plan to accomplish each of the things in the write-up, spaced over the next two years. He was going to get two fitness reports (fitreps) over those two years as well, and we applied the same approach to the fitreps, making goals measurable and setting in place the tools to collect the data. Two years later, when Dave transferred off Santa Fe, his department had accomplished almost everything he’d written down, and the actual citation sounded just like our vision.

Turn the Ship Around!

L. David Marquet and Stephen R. Covey

Cues There aren’t any obvious verbal or mental cues that signal resulting. It is not common to hear somebody say out loud, “That decision was terrible because I’m working backward from the awful outcome to determine that the decision was awful.” But there are obvious cues that signal hindsight bias, such as “I can’t believe I didn’t see that coming,” or “I knew it,” or “I told you so,” or “I should have known it.” Training yourself to listen for those mental and verbal cues is a good way to hone your hindsight bias spotting skills.

How to Decide

Annie Duke

If it’s your internal purpose, the thing you most want to do, then sure, you’ll be happy doing it. But an externally inflicted purpose, like “society wants me to do X,” “I am the first son of the first son of this, so I should do Y,” or “I have this debt or burden I took on,” I don’t think it will make you happy.

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson, Jack Butcher, and Tim Ferriss

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