Freed from the dreary tedium of his job at the bank, Banks’s inner child suddenly comes alive. The effect of his good cheer is magnificent, lifting the spirits of the whole house and infusing the previously melancholic Banks family with joy, camaraderie, and delight.

When our brains are at full capacity, everything feels harder. Fatigue slows us down.

His stress went up as the quality of his work went down.

With practice, enforcing your limits will become easier and easier.

with the plane’s limited seating, few orders coming in, and the high cost of production, it was clear that even with exaggerated estimates the project would never be profitable.

“sunk-cost bias.”

From chemistry we know that gases expand to fill the space they are in; similarly, we’ve all experienced how projects and commitments tend to expand – despite our best efforts – to fill the amount of time allotted to them.

“Exploring the ‘Planning Fallacy: Why People Underestimate Their Task Completion Times,”

To understand what an essential intent is, we may be best served by first establishing what it is not.