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One person cheered for the graduate school entrance examination Two days ago, I saw a paragraph: "A man bought a box of pears, it was summer at that time, the pears spoiled quickly, he was afraid of waste, and he ate those pears that had begun to spoil every day, and ended up eating a box of bad pears."
This is the sunk cost, if you keep staring at the rotten pear, you will only sink deeper and deeper.
I have been particularly addicted to buying lottery tickets in the past two days, and I want to continue to buy after winning ten yuan, and I always feel that I can win more, and I continue to buy if I don't win, and I always feel that there will be a winner. The more than 200 I paid that day were all sunk costs with no visible return.
It's just buying lottery tickets, and if you think a little deeper, are gamblers also like this?
When I went to eat the buffet, I was obviously unable to hold on, and I felt that I didn't get back the cost, so I continued to stuff it into my mouth, and finally I had a stomachache, and I didn't eat the money back. Eating food that is already full is a sunk cost.
Sunk costs are not only material, but also time and effort.
I talked about a boyfriend for four years before, and when we had dinner on our fourth anniversary, he kept replying to other people's WeChat, I thought at first that he was just busy with work, but then he went to the bathroom, put his phone on the desktop, and the screen popped up messages at that moment, I knew that he had betrayed me.
At that moment, I sat in the chair and felt cold, but we have been together for four years, from college to work, he is mature and careful, almost never quarreled, and aside from anything else, he is a very suitable person to marry.
When he came back from the bathroom, I calmly talked to him about whether I could cut ties with the girl and pretend that nothing had happened.
Is he the person I can't bear to reluctant?Not necessarily, but I know that I can't bear to put in the effort and energy of these four years, but in the end, for some other reasons, we still haven't been able to get married.
In fact, most of the time we keep paying sunk costs because of "loss aversion", and the loss aversion will outweigh the joy gained.
I saw a guy doing an experiment before, and he said to his friend, you can pick ten things and put them in the shopping cart, and I'll buy them for you.
When my friend had picked out ten gifts, he said, "I can only give you one gift."
His friend painfully deleted nine from the shopping cart, and at this time, he was immersed in the sadness of losing nine gifts, but he was not happy that he had received one.
Lin Yutang said: "Wise abandonment is better than blind attachment, if blowing the wind can be good, then it doesn't matter if you have a cold." ”
In fact, timely stop loss is not a cowardice, but a self-help.
We can reduce the amount on a regular basis and donate or throw away items that are not needed or inappropriate. When you have something downstreamed, you will find that you don't need it so much, and then you will become a master of material things rather than a slave.
It's the same in relationships, stay away from people who don't agree with each other, streamline your circle of friends, there is nothing to get along with, you are the protagonist in your own world, and everyone else is just NPC.
Learn to do subtraction and get to know yourself more deeply.
Because of the online shopping activities to buy a bunch of useless things, does that mean that you are too easily confused, it seems to take a small advantage, but in fact you spend a lot of unnecessary money.
If you can keep the clothes, you can find out which ones you often wear and what style is most suitable.
The final result is that I live with the things I like every day, consume rationally and buy more valuable things, buy more and more, become less and less compromised, and no longer care so much about gains and losses.
Spend your time on the things you love and do what really makes you happy.
I learned pipa because of the novelty, and at first I felt very relaxed and novel, and I was willing to take the initiative to take the time to practice Xi, and I also felt very happy when I played the pipa.
But then I got busy Xi school, and I also got into more favorite things, such as photography, such as writing articles.
However, due to the pressure of the pipa teacher, I had to squeeze out time to practice Xi every day, and my family also urged me to practice Xi diligently, and then take the exam, and these pressures wore out my purest love for it at the beginning.
So I chose to give up this instrument at the stage of selecting people for a big performance, and the teacher said that I was going to choose me, but my family and friends also said that it was a pity, but I didn't perform it, and I didn't see any substantial returns.
Is it a pity?I don't think that it did bring me real happiness at the beginning, which is undeniable, but when this happiness disappears and is replaced by stress and negative emotions, it is the best choice for me to stop losses in time.
Finally, I would like to share a voice prompt for navigation: "Please make a U-turn at the right place." ”