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Just assume that you’re being overconfident and give yourself a healthy margin of error.
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…realistic job previews not only reduce turnover but also increase job satisfaction.
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Fighting overconfidence means we’ve got to treat the future as a spectrum, not a point.
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Realistic job previews innoculate people against disappointment and increase their satisfaction, even in the midst of a difficult job.
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By bookending – anticipating and preparing for both adversity and success – we stack the deck in favor of our decisions.
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We don’t think about what we’re doing. We drift along in life, floating on the wake of past choices, and it’s easy to forget that we have the ability to change direction.
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Because day-to-day change is gradual, even imperceptible, it’s hard to know when to jump. Tripwires tell you when to jump.
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Chances are you know someone who has been stuck on autopilot too long. Sometimes autopilot causes people to neglect opportunities…
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At some point, the virtue of being persistent turns into the vice of denying reality.
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…it’s easy to forget that most of the deadlines we encounter in life are simply made up. They are artificially created tripwires to force an action or a decision.
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