Everything has an opportunity cost. To choose to invest time in one thing means deciding not to invest time in all the other things. It can mean missing the gains you could have been making in the direction you really wanted to go. Pursuing any calling comes with risk. When there's uncertainty, there will always be some risk.
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Opportunity cost is the loss of potential gain from other choices when one alternative is chosen.
Every time you decide to buy something, you choose to lose out on investing that money. If you buy a brand new car you don't need for $30,000, you're missing out ...
When mulling over multiple choices, the quality of any option cannot be assessed in isolation from its alternatives. The price you pay (or the sacrifice you make, or the benefits you give up) for doing what you’ve chosen to do instead of doing something else is the opportunity cost.
These explanations are all irrational for preferring the status quo:
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