LARAMIE, Wyo., May 29 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release:
How ambitious should you be? Folk wisdom offers conflicting advice: "Shoot for the
moon," but also, "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good."
A new study from researchers at the University of Wyoming, Stanford University and
the University of Colorado-Boulder used a mathematical model to show that ambition
lies in the middle -- above average but finite.
"Conventional wisdom tells people not to settle, but also not to let the perfect be
the enemy of the good," says lead author Kath Landgren, a postdoctoral scholar at
Stanford's Doerr School of Sustainability. "We wanted to see whether the math actually
supports that intuition. It does, with some ...