Alright guys, based on your votes earlier, you can now nominate other people in Brojo to receive free courses, books and more. This is your chance to serve others with just a few taps on the keyboard. Every so often, I'll do a post like this asking you to nominate someone, and that person will get a free gift. How to do it: comment below this post and tag someone in the comment (use the @ feature), with why you want to nominate them, e.g. "I nominate @Daniel Munro because his recent post about Stoicism helped me make a breakthrough" I'll review nominations and contact the nominees privately to offer them a free course or book or whatever I have going on at the moment. Go for it!

This is an interesting psychological phenomenon I stumbled upon years ago, when studying psychology for the first time. It is essentially the idea that, because we’ve already invested in something, we have to keep investing in it / go through with it. My psychology prof used the example of a bad movie at a movie theatre. It might be terrible, and obviously terrible from the start, but most people tend to think along the lines of, “Well, I’ve paid twenty bux for this, so I gotta stick it out until the end.” Newsflash: YOU ACTUALLY DON’T HAVE TO!! Instead, think of it as money lost regardless of what you do next, and don’t lose time on it as well. It’s OKAY to walk out of the theater and put the remaining 90 minutes you would otherwise waste there into something more worthwhile! The sunk-cost fallacy can affect us in many areas of life, including relationships, careers, hobbies and more! That first date going terribly? Find a way to end it early. Hate working in the career your degree prepared you for? It’s likely not too late to switch career paths! Decided you don’t want to read all those mystery novels you bought? Sell ‘em! I mean, your time is finite, and arguably your most precious resource, so why waste it on unpleasant and/or useless tasks to justify some investment of time/money/effort you made in it prior? You gotta be objective and let it go! I know it’s hard, but it’s better than doing something that leads nowhere good… The investment is made. The time / money has been spent, and you cannot get it back. However, you can learn from it, pivot, and do something better going forward. Learn more about the sunk-cost fallacy here: The Sunk Cost Fallacy: How It Affects Your Decisions One interesting quote from the above article: “Studies have shown that the larger the loss, the higher the sunk-cost bias is. In other words, the more you have already ‘invested,’ the less likely you are to shift gears and walk away.”

A game I often play with my students: post three facts about yourself. Two are true, one is false. Then, try to guess everyone's false answers! 😁 I'll go first.... 1) I never got in a fight in high school, despite occasional scraps in my junior high and elementary years. 2) my friends and I got put in detention in junior high school for making a giant male body part out of snow. 3) I once went on a "lunch date" with a gay guy, while living in Brazil, thinking that he was straight and just wanted to be friends. I had to politely tell him later that we weren't oriented the same way. 🤣 Your turn! 😜

Congrats to @Tyler Scott for winning a free 1:1 coaching session (worth $650) for being the most active member in Brojo over the last 7 days. Thanks to all of you who contributed to this group and gave us something interesting and helpful to read. Let's keep it up! Cheers Dan

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