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 energy we've put into this thing.
And we aren't aware of the present moment.
Mindfulness can give us the tools to gain that present moment
perspective and help us recognize what the current circumstances are showing us.
That it's time to move on and it's time to let up.
So what other factors trap us in the sunken cost fallacy?
Research shows that when we make a decision, at times they can be from an emotional place.
And if you've been meditating for a while,
you know that just like clouds in the sky, emotions are temporary and transient.