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I Found The Culprit Behind Goal Distractions
Did you plan to write your story during a 20-minute break between your two work meetings, but all your colleagues were hungry after the first meeting, so they all decided to have a snack party before the second meeting?
Now, you, who planned to write at that moment, had two options:
1. Skip the snack break and write.
2. Succumb to peer pressure and join them.
You chose the second option to avoid peer pressure and FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). Congrats! Planning fallacy caught you.
The planning fallacy is the phenomenon in which humans underestimate the potential time a task usually takes by planning based on the best-case scenario.
You planned to write during the break but ignored any unexpected events that could have occurred during that time.
OHH! I never realized, I always did this!
Well, unless you’re not a robot, you did fine according to your software settings.
