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The Problem With Quitting
- It has been internalized in us since childhood that we should never give up, and that quitting is bad.
- Many of us are stuck in the wrong jobs and due to this idea of not quitting, we waste a lot of productive years.
- We don’t quit because of a cognitive bias known as the sunk cost fallacy, which basically means we continue to do something that is not helping us, but because we have already invested our time, energy and resources.
Example: We don’t quit reading a half-finished book even if the content is not helping us in any way.
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Move On And Learn From It
As a well-known cliché goes: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result.
Be it an activity, a job or a relationship, we need to quit if things aren’t working out. We are too afraid to quit, and in today’s uncertain, com...
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The Sunk Cost Fallacy In Business
When running a company, many entrepreneurs fail to quit, change direction or pivot their business model, unable to admit that what they were doing isn’t working, or that they were plain wrong in their decisions.
The Sunk Cost Fallacy is the primary reason for this gross error in ju...
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Overcome the fear of quitting
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The most common biases
- You’re focused on the time and energy you’ve already invested, or the sunk cost fallacy.
- Your eyes are trained on positive cues -being overly optimistic and loss averse. Always trying harder and for longer.
- When we realize we’re likely to fail at a job or other ...
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