Goal setting and survivorship bias

It's our tendency to concentrate on the people who end up winning  —the survivors—and mistakenly assume that ambitious goals led to their success while removing from pur view all of the people who had the same objective but didn’t succeed.

When you solely focus on success, survivorsh...

We tend to be interested in the success stories of many. We love the encouragement it provides us, but we often overlook the fact that most of these success stories have undergone through many failures.

Survivorship bias is when we concentrate on the peopl...

1. Write goals that align with your values. If your career goals aren’t supporting your life goals, you are bound to have a miserable existence.
2. Set goals that you can control. Unless every aspect of the goal you set is under your control, you have very little likelihood ...