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Unrealistic optimism is a pervasive feature of human life; it characterizes most people in most social categories.
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Telling someone to ‘follow their passion’ is not just an act of innocent optimism, but potentially the foundation for a career riddled with confusion and angst.
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Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there.
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What we often brush away as Luck is, in fact, a mind-set of openness, readiness, and optimism.
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Good fortune derives from a lifelong attitude of humility, intellectual curiosity, and optimism.
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Negativity and lack of faith beget more negativity. On the other hand, optimism, positivity, and faith create the foundation from which success can be built.
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This should not come as a surprise: overly optimistic forecasts of the outcome of projects are found everywhere.
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Organizations face the challenge of controlling the tendency of executives competing for resources to present overly optimistic plans.
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When forecasting the outcomes of risky projects, executives too easily fall victim to the planning fallacy. In its grip, they make decisions based on delusional optimism rather than a rational weighting of gains, losses, and probabilities.
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…people often (but not always) take on risky projects because they are overly optimistic about the odds they face.
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