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"Better to admit you walked through the wrong door than spend your life in the wrong room."
This quote highlights that continuing on a wrong path because of previous investment (time, energy, emotion) is worse than admitting the mistake and starting over.
Reference the “sunk cost fallacy”, which is the psychological tendency to continue an endeavor once an investment in money, effort, or time has been made, even if evidence suggests that abandoning the project is the better option.
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