The Best Decision-Makers Imagine Failure First — Here's Why

[00:00:00]Did you know the world's best decision-makers don't visualize success before a big moment? They imagine total failure before a mission, before a surgery, before a launch. They ask one question. It's 1 year from now, everything went wrong. Why? This is the pre-mortem, a tool developed by psychologist Gary Klein, and it works because your brain finds problems and it would otherwise ignore. Positive [music] thinking feels good, but it hides the gaps. Honest thinking finds them. So, before your next hard decision, [music] don't picture winning. Picture the wreckage, then work backward. That's where the real plan lives.