Decision-Making
How Stubbornness and Sunk Costs Hold You Back in Life
The sunk cost fallacy is usually described as a reasoning error, but in many people it hardens into something…
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Decision-Making
Resources for understanding how different personalities choose, plan, and adapt.
Decision-Making
Why We Stay in Bad Romantic Relationships Way Too Long
Few sunk cost traps are as painful or as common as staying in a romantic relationship long after it has stopp…
Decision-Making
How to Overcome the Sunk Cost Trap in a Failing Marriage
A marriage is the most committed sunk cost a person can hold. It carries everything a long relationship carri…
Decision-Making
Recognizing When It's Time to Leave Based on Love, Not Time Invested
The previous articles diagnosed why we stay and how to overcome the trap. This one is about the decision crit…
Decision-Making
Overcoming the Fear of "Wasted Time" in a Long Term Relationship
Of all the forces that keep people in relationships they should leave, one phrase appears more than any other…
Decision-Making
How to Leave a Bad Relationship Without Regretting the Years You Spent
Deciding to leave is one thing; leaving well — and living afterward without being consumed by regret — is ano…
Decision-Making
Why You Shouldn't Stay in a Relationship Just Because of the Time Invested
This article makes the core argument in its sharpest form: time invested is not, by itself, a valid reason to…
Decision-Making
The Evolutionary Purpose of Cognitive Bias and Its Modern Day Pitfalls
The most illuminating way to understand any specific cognitive bias is to pair its original evolutionary purp…
Decision-Making
How Biases Can Be Useful but Also Lead to Terrible Decisions
The dual nature of cognitive biases — genuinely useful in some situations, catastrophically harmful in others…
Decision-Making
A Comprehensive Guide to the Cognitive Biases Ruining Your Life
Cognitive biases do not ruin life in the abstract — they ruin it in specific domains, through specific distor…
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The Major Human Flaws: Cognitive Biases You Need to Watch Out For
Some cognitive biases are so frequent, so universal, and so consequential that they function as major human f…
Decision-Making
A List of the Worst Cognitive Biases That Destroy Decision-Making
Not all cognitive biases are equally destructive to decision-making. Some merely shade your judgments slightl…