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Happy Monday, my good people.

Welcome back to another episode of Radio Headspace.

I'm your host, Dora Kamau.

Okay.

Have you ever invested so much time into something or someone?

And because of how much time you invested, you still stay committed to the cause, even when it no longer served you or

was no longer in your best interest?

Maybe it's a job or a friendship or even a personal project you decided to take on that

turned out to be way more work than you thought,

without a lot of payoff.

This, my friend, is called the sunken cost fallacy.

And usually we have a tough time moving away from these situations

because we're looking back at what we've invested.

We get caught up in the past, and we think about all the time that we've spent and the what we've invested. We get caught up in the past,

and we think about all the time that we've spent

and the energy we've put into this thing,

and we aren't aware of the present moment.

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