> Did you act on the basis of circumstances you wish were the case rather than the circumstances that are in fact the case? This BTW is one of the most common

> Did you act on the basis of circumstances you wish were the case rather than the circumstances that are in fact the case? This BTW is one of the most common source of mistakes I encounter. When offered choice between A and B, people routinely evaluate A in some ideal situation X which is not real, decide that A does not match this situation very well, and discard it, choosing B - while failing to notice that in real situation B is even further from achieving the desired outcome. Example: we consider building option A and B for a feature of the product, and we know users like feature B much better, so we don't choose option A, even though we have neither resources not budget to actually implement B properly. As a result, we get half-implemented broken B instead of somewhat-less-liked but working A, and the users end up hating the whole thing. Seen it so many times.