{"id":238040,"date":"2026-05-30T03:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/shoot-for-the-moon-aim-a-bit-lower-researchers-say"},"modified":"2026-05-30T03:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:33:12","slug":"shoot-for-the-moon-aim-a-bit-lower-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/shoot-for-the-moon-aim-a-bit-lower-researchers-say","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shoot for the moon?\u2019 Aim a bit lower, researchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/shoot-for-the-moon-aim-a-bit-lower-researchers-say.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How ambitious should you be? Folk wisdom offers conflicting advice: \u201cShoot for the moon,\u201d but also, \u201cDon\u2019t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.\u201d A new study by researchers at the University of Wyoming, Stanford University and the University of Colorado-Boulder used a mathematical model to show that ambition lies in the middle\u2014above average but finite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConventional wisdom tells people not to settle, but also not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good,\u201d says lead author Kath Landgren, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford\u2019s Doerr School of Sustainability. \u201cWe wanted to see whether the math actually supports that intuition. It does, with some interesting twists.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How ambitious should you be? Folk wisdom offers conflicting advice: \u201cShoot for the moon,\u201d but also, \u201cDon\u2019t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.\u201d A new study by researchers at the University of Wyoming, Stanford University and the University of Colorado-Boulder used a mathematical model to show that ambition lies in the middle\u2014above [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}