Calibration over optimism

principle — attributed to David Landgraf

When Junglekeepers organizers projected seven hundred and fifty guests for a January debut, Landgraf told them two hundred to three hundred. Not pessimism. The discipline of seeing the situation clearly before others do, then building accordingly.

"'No way,' he told them. 'You'll get two hundred, maybe three hundred.' It wasn't pessimism. It was calibration."

planning, realism