Over- and Under-Estimating Challenges

Sometimes, challenges are more difficult than we thought they were going to be, and we have to struggle harder than we thought we'd have to to overcome them. Sometimes, challenges are less difficult than we thought they were going to be, and we realize that we wasted a good deal of time worrying about them and over-preparing for them. The important thing isn't to worry about how much we over- or under-estimated our challenges. The important thing is to face our challenges and work to overcome them, whether that's harder or easier than we thought it'd be, and then move on to the next challenge. Sure, we can compare our experiences against our expectations to try to make our predictions more accurate in the future, but we shouldn't worry too much about how far off our estimates were. To err is human. Live, learn, and move forward. The time we wasted struggling against a challenge that we thought would be easier, or over-preparing for a challenge we thought would be harder, is all water under the bridge by the time we've overcome the challenge, so at that point, it doesn't really matter whether we've under-estimated our challenges or over-estimated them. Just learn what you can from the challenge and then move on.