Parrish uses decision journals where he writes down his decisions in advance and then evaluates them afterward; he finds that people are often right on outcome but wrong on reasoning—they rationalize why they were right when the actual reasons were different

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Speaker

Shane Parrish

Evidence Quote

they were right but when they read the reasons they were right they're not quite as right as they want to be...we sort of convinced ourselves that were right even though we're not right

Source

Jim Collins — Good to Great — The Knowledge Project #67The Knowledge Project Podcast
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:32:34 AM

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