Episode 88: Survivorship Bias

Today's episode teaches survivorship bias — the perceptual error Abraham Wald famously exposed when he showed WWII military planners they were reinforcing the wrong parts of their bombers. The lesson is simple and powerful: the data you're missing often matters more than the data right in front of you. One small action to try today: take one strategy you're treating as proven and spend two minutes asking what the failures look like. Key Topics: survivorship bias, perception and clarity, mental models, decision-making, Abraham Wald, missing data, self-honesty Subscribe to The Daily Discipline for a daily reset on Clarity, one morning at a time.