How to Make Mistakes, Fail, and Give Up

This episode features:


-How to evaluate your chance of successfully completing difficult
projects


-Can you be justified in believing that you are an extraordinary
person who can do extraordinary things?


-When to trust the advice of others and when not to


-How to fail faster


-How to judge a project based on how well it fails


-How to avoid repeating mistakes


-Why you should want to fail occasionally


-How to make failure more foreseeable: the “premortem”


 


Full transcript


 


-References-


Apply Psychology:


Klein, G. (2007). Performing a project premortem. Harvard
business review, 85(9), 18-19.


Roese, N. J., & Vohs, K. D. (2012). Hindsight bias.
Perspectives on psychological science, 7(5), 411-426.


Arbital postmortem


Celebrating failed projects


How Many of the 540,000 Podcasts have “Podfaded?”


Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck


‘Never Settle’ Is A Brag


Umeshisms


Why we should err in both directions


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