Optimism Bias
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Stanimiroff: Sales reps often do not realize goal deficits until mid-month
“If a salesperson or the team in the example I gave you before, start slipping behind goal, and they start losing their track a little bit, it's very often the case that they don't really appreciate the gravity of their situation up until it's too late. So in m…”
Sharot: Optimism bias persists because humans update more on positive information
“What my research has shown is that we maintain this optimism bias and we, it's generated because we learn a little bit better from unexpected positive information than unexpected negative information.”
Sharot: 80% of people show personal optimism but societal pessimism
“And actually we call that private optimism and public despair. So this interesting conflict where on one side people are quite optimistic about themselves. We see this in 80% of the population. But at the same time, we are pessimistic about the rest of the wor…”