A Thinking Error. If you decide you want to do something, you consider it as good as done. As you approach a criminal activity you reach a state of absolute certainty that you won’t get in trouble, no matter how unrealistic your plan. You don’t listen to reasonable doubts about anything if you want it done. If someone tells you maybe you regard it as yes. If you decide to become a responsible person, you are sure of your success and consider the change to have already happened just because you want it that way. You use super optimism to convince yourself that you don’t really have to do any work to make things turn out all right – this applies tofuture job, future relationships, etc.
