humans are bedeviled by the “sunk cost fallacy.” Having inv… - David Epstein

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humans are bedeviled by the “sunk cost fallacy.” Having invested time or money in something, we are loath to leave it, because that would mean we had wasted our time or money, even though it is already gone.

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