When you set out to do something hard, it is easy to be wrong as to what you can realistically accomplish. Psychology has established over many years of research that it is normal for human beings to optimistically overestimate what we can do.
When you set out to do something hard, it is easy to be wrong as to what you can realistically accomplish.
Psychology has established over many years of research that it is normal for human beings to optimistically overestimate what we can do.
In fact, that very optimism can be the thing that carries us to the finish line.
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When you set out to do something hard, it is easy to be wrong as to what you can realistically accomplish. Psychology has established over many years of research that it is normal for human beings to optimistically overestimate what we can do. In fact, that very optimism can be the thing that carries us to the finish line.
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