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The Case Against Having a Backup Plan

Noted: The researchers, the University of Wisconsin’s Jihae Shin and the University of Pennsylvania’s Katherine Milkman, broke down the main finding of a study they’d recently published in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes: Just thinking about a Plan B can diminish the amount of effort you’ll put into your Plan A, making it less likely that you’ll actually achieve whatever you set out to do.