6 Keys to Unlocking the Power of Choice
Applying the sunk cost fallacy to our decision making
All day, every day, you are interacting with the world around you. Other people, places, things, ideas, your internal monologue, and so forth. Everything that happens to you, you have a choice in how to respond. But, it’s unlocking the power of choice in life’s most crucial moments that can truly make the difference between success and failure, passion or indifference, and optimism or pessimism.
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom,” -Victor Frankl
Most of the decisions we make daily are thoughtless and automatic. Our lives tend to become so habitualized that we stop consciously thinking about many of the choices that we face. We continue with the status quo, what we have grown to be comfortable with. Unfortunately, we become so used to this mindless way of making decisions that many of us miss out on opportunities because we fail to act.
So often, too many of us choose to be in things such as an unfulfilled job, an unhappy relationship, where you may love the person, but you know, it’s not the right thing for you. Or we may have trauma in our life. And instead of making the decision to face that trauma…
