I applied the method of exhaustion to my course final project this semester, breaking it into 9 steps. It was a fun exercise, and I appreciated it!
It’s interesting, you definitely see failure rates that look logarithmic in marriages and bankruptcies, but I do think that some of that is what tcheasdfjkl said—some of that is just from the fact that things that fail early don’t get a chance to fail later. In my personal experience, I think there are two big places where my plans fail: before they start and at the first major setback. I think that usually if I can get started on something and keep going past the first time there’s a problem, I can usually overcome future problems. But sometimes the first setback is enough to make me set something aside, and I just never end up coming back.
I applied the method of exhaustion to my course final project this semester, breaking it into 9 steps. It was a fun exercise, and I appreciated it!
It’s interesting, you definitely see failure rates that look logarithmic in marriages and bankruptcies, but I do think that some of that is what tcheasdfjkl said—some of that is just from the fact that things that fail early don’t get a chance to fail later. In my personal experience, I think there are two big places where my plans fail: before they start and at the first major setback. I think that usually if I can get started on something and keep going past the first time there’s a problem, I can usually overcome future problems. But sometimes the first setback is enough to make me set something aside, and I just never end up coming back.