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Implementation intentions clarify action plans

Writing down the exact time and location an action will take place dramatically increases the probability of execution compared to vague goals. In engineering terms, Incident postmortems must be blameless to clearly implement preventative intentions.¹

Footnotes

1. Gollwitzer, P. M. (1999). Implementation intentions. ↩