We are also unusually optimistic when planning — we overestimate our own ability to complete a distant task.
As in most sales, the most important factors in choosing a buyer are the highest price and the ability to complete a deal.
A producer's ability to complete a film and a financier's ability to make money on it depend heavily on a star's willingness to commit to an early filming date and to show up.
Seoul says the ability to complete a "fuel cycle," from enrichment to recycling, is central to its goals of meeting 60 percent of its electricity needs with nuclear power by 2030 and becoming a global exporter of nuclear reactors.
As our understanding of the human brain advances, our conception of its capacities becomes ever more complex, and the ability to complete a mathematical pattern or unscramble an anagram becomes less the measurement of an important ability and more a curious predilection, like a fascination with stamps or a passion for the oboe.
Each extra piece represents a small triumph; a small precursor, of the ultimate satisfaction of popping the last piece into place.The ability to complete a crossword, sudoku or puzzle is another trait that distinguishes them from most computer games (where there is nearly always another level to master) or indeed from life itself, where every day brings a new task.
Maybe they want to showcase their ability to complete a film, thereby earning a credential for larger things later.
Bandura (1997) postulated that experiences with successful completion of a task should have a strong positive influence on an individual's confidence in his/her ability to complete a similar task.
– When a company uses a data broker's risk mitigation product to limit a consumers' ability to complete a transaction, require the consumer-facing company to tell consumers which data broker's information the company relied on; – Require the data broker to allow consumer access to the information used and the ability to correct it, as appropriate.
(1) To compare staff members' opinions of long-term care (LTC) residents' ability to complete a customer satisfaction survey (CSS) with a measure of cognition (MDS-COGS) derived from Minimum Data Set data; and (2) to examine the association between CSS answer reliability and MDS-COGS score.
