What to Expect from Visualizing Expectations

How can information design strengthen our resolve?

Eli Holder
Nightingale

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An astronaut looks out a Mars, through a trip-duration progress bar.
A trip to Mars means ~260 very boring, anxious days for a few lucky astronauts.

It’s hard to do hard things. Continuing to do hard things is even harder.

American culture glorifies persistence. When we hire, we hire for “grit.” We lionize the leaders who saw us through our longest, most difficult times (e.g. MLK, Washington, Churchill, FDR, Moses, Frodo)…

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