Premortem

Send us Fan Mail English lesson application (with Jale): https://forms.gle/RGS9xwfLHXRRnmaQ9 To check the transcript: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2379282 Premortem We usually study failure after it happens. A plan falls apart, a deadline is missed, a project does not work—and only then do we ask: “What went wrong?” But there is an interesting decision-making technique that asks us to move that question much earlier. It is called a premortem, an idea popularized by psychologist Gary Klein. A postmortem looks back at something that has already failed. A premortem asks you to imagine, before you begin, that the failure has already happened. So suppose you are starting an important project. Instead of only asking: “How can I make this successful?” you imagine yourself six months from now and say: “It failed. Why?”