In fact, losing feels about two times as bad to us as winning feels good to us. - Annie Duke

When it comes to quitting, the most painful thing to quit is who you are.

Making better decisions starts with understanding this: uncertainty can work a lot of mischief.

But omission-commission bias causes us not to view these decisions as equivalent. That's why we accept that explanation of "I'm not ready to make a decision yet" from others and why we accept it from ourselves. Of course, what that really means is "I'm not ready to veer from the status quo."