Believing things will be okay doesn't mean they will, writes Kevin Jenkins.

Boy bands from the 1990s don't feature big on my playlist, but one song was a bit of an earworm for me. Secretly, I never minded the big chorus from King of Wishful Thinking by

Making performance data unavoidable helps a lot too, along with remembering to challenge your cognitive biases are frequently. This should also help ensure your creative juices and hard work are directed to the right ends.

I reckon compartmentalising the negative - moving on – also helps you not just to analyse more precisely by seeing specific results in their proper contexts, it may also make you more psychologically resilient.