#4: Mind the tricks your mind plays 🪄

Happy Friday! 🎉 This week we (my household) completed the shift from one internet service provider (ZUKU Fibre) to another (MTN Wakanet Pro) because there’s only so much abuse one can (should) take. The shift was not without challenges, and I anticipate a few tough days in the future, but taking the leap was an example of beating the sunk-cost fallacy 🥊.

Stay with me, I’ll explain what that is.

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🪄 Mind the tricks your mind plays

Remember that one time you declined to participate in an activity because you were afraid people might judge you?

For me, it was breakdancing in high school. I was a damn good dancer back in the day if I do say so myself, but I thought dancing on stage would make me a tryhard.

I wanted to be perceived as effortlessly cool.

In reality, nobody cared and though I graced the stage a few times, I mostly missed out on having fun and making memories to cringe at later in life.

The preoccupation with other people’s opinions is called the spotlight effect, and the cure is to realize people aren’t as interested in your life as you think.

I may have taken beating the spotlight effect too far by starting a YouTube channel and a host of other platforms, but it’s too late to turn back now.

Or is it?

This leads me to a second and common fallacy — the sunk-cost fallacy.

Staying in a toxic relationship because you feel like you’ve invested too much time into it, or suffering through a boring movie because you paid your hard-earned money. These choices are examples of the sunk-cost fallacy.

You won’t get that time or money back anyway, so best change course for the better.

🅾️ Coming full circle: It was hard to change internet service providers because we felt we had invested a lot of time and money the first time around. But that feeling of loss couldn’t be the main driver of our decision to switch; Our quality of life was. So, sunk costs be damned, we ripped the cord (see what I did there? 😉) and are happier (for now). I’ll keep you posted.

Don’t make decisions from a place of fear.

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This week my son got his first haircut and it was such a brief but bountiful moment.

I’m grateful for the time I have to spend with those I love.

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— Shem

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