How Your Expectations Can Sink Your Ship

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Well worth waiting for!

From: Winton Bates
Date: 12 Oct 2006
Time: 06:44:31 -0500
Remote Name: 203.51.81.162

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I think your intentions Vs expectations story sums up a huge amount of relevant information in just a couple of words. This is the article many of us have been waiting for. I know you have been working on it for some time and that some people were asking where where they could find it even before the article was written. I have a vague recollection that in something you have previously written on this subject you referred to the expectations standpoint as a being the view of a spectator and contrasted that with standpoint of a player who is focused on intentions. From memory, you made the point that while it is OK for spectators or commentators to be speculating about how well a player will perform based on past performance, when players do this they virtually guarantee that their future performance will be no better than their past performance. I wonder whether my memory serves me correctly and (more importantly) whether you think that intentions Vs expectations does correspond closely with player Vs commentator/ spectator viewpoints. Cheers Winton


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