The fear of letting go is partly an accounting error: the sunk cost fallacy shows we cling to failing plans because of what we already spent, and research on goal disengagement finds that releasing an unreachable goal, then redirecting the effort, tends to improve wellbeing
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Don’t be afraid to let go has the ring of a fridge magnet, the sort of advice that is easy to nod at and hard to follow. The…