“The one who gets wisdom loves life; the one who cherishes understanding will soon prosper.”
Proverbs 19:8 NIV
Cognitive psychologists have made it abundantly clear that we are prone to a multitude of biases, blind spots, and other failures of rationality. We have a tendency, for instance, to keep fighting losing battles because of the “sunk cost” bias, which makes us reluctant to give up on project…