RE:RE:Plant for production"The planning fallacy is only one of the manifestations of a pervasive optimistic bias. Most of us view the world as more benign then it really is, our own attributes as more favorable than they truly are, and the goals we adopt as more achievable than they are likely to be. We also tend to exaggerate our ability to forecast the future, which fosters optimistic overconfidence. in terms of its consequences for decisions, the optimistic bias may well be the most significant of the cognitive biases. Because optimistic biases can be both a blessing and a risk, you should be both happy and wary, if you are temporarily temperamentally optimistic."
pg 255. Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman ( winner of the noble prize in economics)