The Quiet Drivers of Success Most People Completely Miss

I study as a business professor is how badly we infer causes from surfaces.

We walk into a classroom, a gym, Walmart, a town meeting, and we instantly start telling ourselves stories.

Who looks successful.

Who looks competent.

Who looks like they have it together.

We infer all of this from watches, cars, clothes, houses, how someone talks, how confident they sound, how firm their handshake is.

And those inferences are almost always wrong.

What’s worse is that we rarely self-correct. It actually takes real mental work to stop believing the story your brain invents in five seconds.

I see this…

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