Did you sink your battleship ⛴️?
(do you remember playing that game?!)
The battleship here is your strategy to achieve a goal
And if your battleship has sunk (you didn’t complete said goal), it means you need to rethink your strategy, and it doesn’t involve a recon mission to the bottom of the sea to salvage your old one 😅
Learning about the sunk cost fallacy was super helpful to me when dealing with my own sunk battleship
A sunk cost is something that you paid for in the past (either in your time 🕑 or with your money 💵) that is not relevant to future decisions
My PGY2 research manuscript was a sunk cost. I invested a lot of time trying to resurrect that thing from the bottom of the ocean. Why? Because I had invested so much time into the research, the writing, the (endless) editing, and was so close to seeing it published it was blinding me.
I was throwing “good money after bad”
Just because you invested in something in the past, doesn’t mean you should double down on it. That investment is gone and it’s not coming back.
Make a new decision now to direct future strategy
No one likes feeling like they wasted time or money, but it’s even worse to not learn the lesson and waste even more the second go around
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