Bias for Action
Lessons from Currant Keppler
She had already driven the perimeter of the industrial park twice, and there was no more time to be killed. She parked, flipped down the visor for a last-minute mirror check, and tried to smile. Her reflection looked terrified.
Can I really do this job? What if I’m not smart enough? What if I mess up?
Currant Keppler had graduated from the University of Minnesota’s Full-Time MBA program two weeks before, and all that stood between her and her first real corporate position was this parking lot.
Bias for action, Currant told herself, pushing aside the abstract what-ifs and worries and focusing on the concrete. She flung open the door of her Honda, forcing herself out of the car, and strode purposefully toward her future.
This is the opening scene from Firebrand: A Corporate Elements Mystery, by Megan Preston Meyer, who is me.
The book is about Currant Keppler, a 25-year-old with a fresh MBA who gets her first real job and then has to solve a mystery. It is semi-autobiographical; I got my MBA and then my first real job, and did not have to solve a mystery (hence the ‘semi-’). I did, however, go through a lot of what Currant goes through.
The wild cycling between imposter syndrome and overconfidence? That was me¹…
