Today's episode teaches survivorship bias — the trap of learning only from what made it back — credited to Abraham Wald, the statistician who famously showed the U.S. military it was studying the wrong bullet holes on World War Two bombers. Today's small action: pick one belief you hold about what works, and spend five minutes looking for the failures you never heard about.
Key Topics: survivorship bias, perception and clarity, decision-making, mental models, Abraham Wald, self-honesty, avoiding cognitive bias
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Today's episode teaches survivorship bias — the trap of learning only from what made it back — credited to Abraham Wald, the statistician who famously showed the U.S. military it was studying the wrong bullet holes on World War Two bombers. Today's small 

Today's episode teaches survivorship bias — the trap of learning only from what made it back — credited to Abraham Wald, the statistician who famously showed the U.S. military it was studying the wrong bullet holes on World War Two bombers. Today's small action: pick one belief you hold about what works, and spend five minutes looking for the failures you never heard about. Key Topics: survivorship bias, perception and clarity, decision-making, mental models, Abraham Wald, self-honesty, avoiding cognitive bias Subscribe to The Daily Discipline for a daily reset on Clarity, one morning at a...

Episode 166: Survivorship Bias

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