Plug in a destination into your GPS and it’ll spit out an estimated time of arrival. This is the best case scenario. And rarely, if ever, do we get there early.
However, the weather, traffic incidents, congestion, or an unlucky run of traffic lights, can all delay us. They make the best case scenario look like a wishful guess.
If it takes us a few minutes longer to get somewhere, that rarely matters. But in other areas of our lives we should we wary of relying on best-case-scenario estimates. For example, professional projects usually take longer, are more costly, and more complicated than originally planned.
The idea for this post came from today’s particularly long drive; one that ended up being a lot longer than the estimate.