Why everything takes longer than you think: the planning fallacy
A talk on why we underestimate how long tasks take and how to plan better; students follow the argument and run a pre-mortem.
C1Adults50 minTalk
About this lesson
A C1 listening lesson (talk). Dialogues and stories to listen to, with transcripts, speed control and ready-made questions.
- Level
- C1
- Skill
- Listening
- Type
- Talk
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 50 minutes
- Topic
- Mind & psychology
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Listening (read aloud), True / False, Multiple choice, Gap-fill
- Key words
- a fallacy, underestimate, overrun, coin a term, a remedy, flush out, gloomy, infrastructure
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Follow the structure of a talk: claim, evidence, explanation and remedies
- Apply a psychological technique to a real planning problem