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Having clear goals is so important to make sure you are working on the things that have the highest impact on what you want to achieve. Otherwise, you may end as St. Augustin said centuries ago: bene curris, sed extra viam. You run well but in the wrong direction. Read more...

Dorie Clark, author of The Long Game, proposes 7 strategies for personal long-term thinking. Read more...

An unedited conversation between Elon Musk and the always outstanding Chris Anderson at TED2022. Read more...

There is a fascinating chapter in Imaginable where the author, Jane McGonigal, explains the effect of the timeline set for thinking ahead, setting goals, or even day-to-day work1. On a ten-year timeline, we don’t feel rushed. We have plenty of opportunity to develop new skills, collect resources, recruit allies, learn from our mistakes, bounce back from setbacks, and do whatever else we need to do to get the best possible outcome. Read more...

By definition, a sunk cost is a cost that has already been incurred. One of the essentials of decision-making is realizing the need to ignore sunk costs and consider only what is going to happen in the future, how the decision increases the chances of achieving our long-term goals. We like to think that we make rational decisions based on the future value of things. Most of the time, however, our decisions are tainted by the accumulated emotional investment. Read more...