Daily Inspiration: "Have you ever noticed how some people can easily explain why an outcome that they did not expect was inevitable all along?" - Futurist Jim Carroll

After things happen, everyone's an expert, because they express their knowledge of the inevitability of it all! And yet, in fact, people seem to be experts at everything with actual expertise in nothing.

We can probably blame this state of affairs on the media, and in particular, today's modern-day talk show format. In the rush to get ratings, they've engineered an online style that involves bombast, aggression, and anger. I guess to survive in this world, you have to be prepared to toss your principles out the door. I withdrew from participating in media interviews, particularly of the talk show format, after a bizarre appearance on CNBC with Maria Baritoromo in 2006. In a show about innovation, the producers behind the scenes seemed to be eager to get everyone active in yelling at each other. I mean, the show was about innovation! Bizarre.

And yet, this mindset has also become very common in the corporate setting. Many organizations suffer from 'hindsight bias' - that is the tendency for people to suggest, after some major event or market shift has occurred, that they knew all along that it would happen. The problem with this is that it leads to a culture where people are unwilling to learn from mistakes.

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2023/09/daily-inspiration-the-misinformation-age-have-you-ever-noticed-how-some-people-can-easily-explain-why-an-outcome-that-they-did-not-expect-was-inevitable-all-along/

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