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LeBron James Used A Steve Jobs Speech To Motivate The Cavs To Victory (bgr.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BGR: Well, LeBron James finally accomplished what he set out to do when he announced his triumphant return to the Cleveland Cavaliers 2014: he brought an NBA championship to Cleveland. Going into the NBA Finals, the Cavaliers were clear underdogs. And once the Cavs went down three games to one, the odds in Vegas that LeBron and co. could take back the series were as high as +900. Looking back at the Cavaliers' historic championship run and odds-defying victory, ESPN has a fascinating piece up detailing how LeBron sought to find every and anything that could help motivate his teammates and help them believe that an unprecedented comeback was indeed within the realm of possibility. And interestingly enough, one of the sources of inspiration James turned to was Steve Jobs. Specifically, James played portions of Steve Jobs' iconic 2005 Stanford University commencement speech to rally the troops ahead of game 3. "You can't connect the dots looking forward," Jobs passionately said, "you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something -- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." You can watch Jobs' aforementioned speech in its entirety here on YouTube.
It's called Hindsight Bias A logical fallacy.
Not only is it used by folks to say they knew it all along. But it's also used by folks to judge others with "you should have known better." for actions that no person could possibly have known the outcome.
Life is quite unpredictable but we have this cultural delusion that it is.
We have a media that reports only on the successes in our society - the people that took irrational risks and made it and don't report on the majority who do the same and fail miserably. As a result, we have a very distorted view of the likelihood of success in this country and as a result judge people who fail as people with an inherit character deficiency.
>>This approach has never let me down
Up until needless death from curable cancer.