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Escalation of commitment happens because we’re rationalizing creatures, constantly searching for self-justifications for our prior beliefs as a way to soothe our egos, shield our images, and validate our past decisions.
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There’s a fine line between heroic persistence and foolish stubbornness. Sometimes the best kind of grit is gritting our teeth and turning around.
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When we dedicate ourselves to a plan and it isn’t going as we hoped, our first instinct isn’t usually to rethink it.
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Kids might be better off learning about careers as actions to take rather than as identities to claim.
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When [kids] see work as what they do rather than who they are, they become more open to exploring different possibilities.
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Changing a career isn’t like finding a soul mate. It’s possible that your ideal job hasn’t even been invented yet. Old industries are changing and new industries are emerging faster than ever before…
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We foreclose on all kinds of life plans. Once you’ve committed to one, it becomes part of your identity, making it difficult to de-escalate.
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In some ways, identity foreclosure is the opposite of an identity crisis: instead of accepting uncertainty about who we want to become, we develop compensatory conviction and plunge head over heels into a career path.
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Deciding to leave a current career path is often easier than identifying a new one.
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When we’re willing to update our ideas of who our partners are, it can give them freedom to evolve and our relationships room to grow.
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