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Coaching Yourself: Career Coaching Personas for Everyday Engineers, Part Two - The Overoptimizer

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Exploring the Mindset of the Over-Optimizer

This chapter explores the concept of the over-optimizer and the critical question of actions taken when solely focused on a specific outcome. It emphasizes the importance of understanding motivations through self-reflection and behavioral science, highlighting how incentives and disincentives influence decisions.

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