The Illusion of Control Is Hurting Your Goals

A classic survivor test shows us the danger of abandoning your mission whenever things get uncomfortable

Nir Eyal
Forge
Published in
4 min readMar 10, 2021

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Photo: Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images

Let’s try something. Imagine you’ve just crash-landed somewhere in the Sonoran Desert, deep in the American Southwest. Though the aircraft is now a smoldering wreck, you miraculously survived uninjured, and now…

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Nir Eyal
Forge
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