Saved by Briggs Uhler
We often don't price choices correctly
It can be worth forgoing marriage for sex, and it can be worth forgoing sex for marriage. It can be worth forgoing parenthood for work, and it can be worth forgoing work for parenthood. Every case is orthogonal to all the others. That’s the entire problem.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
book is really great if you if you don't know it because it just points out all the reasons beyond some cost fallacy
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that people do things way longer than it makes sense to do them and the biggest thing is they underestimate opportunity
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costs if you're working on one thing and and there's identity and ego and all those other things but it's... See more
12:53
that people do things way longer than it makes sense to do them and the biggest thing is they underestimate opportunity
12:59
costs if you're working on one thing and and there's identity and ego and all those other things but it's... See more
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By default, we tend to think of “choices” as the kinds of things that take us off the path we’re already on. From this stance, it doesn’t feel like we are “choosing” to go to our job every day, or choosing to remain where we live. The scary thing is that this means we can actually be making the biggest mistake of our lives on a daily basis, despite... See more