Kill criteria could consist of information you learn that tells you the monkey isn't trainable or that you're not sufficiently likely to reach your g… - Annie Duke

We do not simply 'react to' a happening. . . . We behave according to what we bring to the occasion." Our beliefs affect how we process all new things, "whether the 'thing' is a football game, a presidential candidate, Communism, or spinach.

When that happens, it makes us uncomfortable, and we want to make that discomfort go away. So we rationalize away the new information so we can defend our prior beliefs.

A common, simple way to develop kill criteria is with "states and dates:" "If by (date), I have/haven't (reached a particular state), I'll quit."