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How the sunk cost fallacy leads to poor decision making

How the sunk cost fallacy leads to poor decision making

by Rachael Roberts | Jan 19, 2021 | Career, Emotions, Happiness, Saying no

Have you ever continued doing a course you don’t actually find useful, or stayed in an unsatisfying relationship because you’ve already invested so much time and effort in making it work? Or perhaps you’ve kept something you don’t like because it was expensive?...
The tyranny of the ‘should’

The tyranny of the ‘should’

by Rachael Roberts | Oct 13, 2020 | Anxiety, Emotions, Happiness, MIndfulness, Personal Development, Saying no, Stress

If there’s one word that should come with a big flashing neon light around it, it’s ‘should’. The German psychoanalyst Karen Horney perceptively talked about “the tyranny of the should.”   What does it mean if we say that we should do something? It...

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