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In the third of an eight part series on the humble project management toolkit for better results in an uncertain world, I describe our cognitive biases or “thinking errors” - one of two major causes of the ‘Planning Fallacy’ (why projects go over budget, over time, and fail to deliver according to specification… over and over again), and the project management implications of the fact that we often think more like Homer Simpson of the Simpsons than Mr Spock of Star Trek (the old version).