"If you have an excuse prepared, you will be tempted to fall back on it. An excuse makes failure more acceptable, in some way. It's a license to fail."

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Original post: http://mindingourway.com/have-no-excuses/

"But you know about the planning fallacy"

"a wonderful opportunity for self-signaling"

Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway.com

Find Gianluca Truda at http://gianlucatruda.com

Replacing Guilt is written by Nate Soares and produced, with permission, by Gianluca Truda. The theme music is a remix of Algorithms by Chad Crouch.