Speaker 1: Get everyone Sam would hear for today's motivational moment. It's
Speaker 1: a theory called sunk cost fallacy. What on earth is that?
Speaker 1: So sunk cost fallacy is and sort of learning about
Speaker 1: this too, but I find it really interesting. It's our
Speaker 1: bias to continue with something that may not be working
Speaker 1: for us, or we might not even be enjoying, purely
Speaker 1: because of the fear of feeling like we are quitting something.
Speaker 1: We all do it all the time. Now, can't give up,
Speaker 1: So I'm going to just keep going with it. And
Speaker 1: then eventually you give up, and it's ten times worse
Speaker 1: because you spend another six months of your life doing
Speaker 1: something that ultimately you knew at day ten wasn't working
Speaker 1: for you. So you've actually made it fifty times worse
Speaker 1: by persisting with it. The best and simplest example I
Speaker 1: can give you is you sit down, you turn on
Speaker 1: Netflix your movie. You're fifteen minutes in, you think it's
Speaker 1: a shit movie, but you keep watching it because, like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to waste the fifteen minutes that I've
Speaker 1: already invested in this movie. That's what sunk cost fallacy is. Now,
Speaker 1: it's an easy analogy to understand from watching a movie
Speaker 1: and we've all done it, and then we say to ourselves,
Speaker 1: why on earth that I watched the last hour and
Speaker 1: a half? I knew where that movie was heading. It
Speaker 1: was an absolute stinker, and for some reason I persisted
Speaker 1: with it. It didn't get any better. And there's an
Speaker 1: hour and a half, for an hour and forty five
Speaker 1: minutes of your life that you never get back. Now,
Speaker 1: from a life perspective, before we get into fitness, I
Speaker 1: see this a lot from a job point of view,
Speaker 1: and it's interesting. I'm forty two, so I've got a
Speaker 1: lot of mates who are thirty five to forty five,
Speaker 1: and it's a really you know, you sort of feel
Speaker 1: at this age, I believe that you kind of should
Speaker 1: have your stuff worked out by now. You kind of
Speaker 1: should know where you're at and not be experimenting in
Speaker 1: inverted commas. And therefore, or if you not happy in
Speaker 1: your job, you tend to stick it out. But then
Speaker 1: when you think about that, it's like, oh, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't like this job that I've been doing for twenty years,
Speaker 1: but I'm twenty years in. I'm just going to keep
Speaker 1: doing it for another twenty I mean, how crazy is
Speaker 1: that sound? When you get one life. It's just madness,
Speaker 1: absolute madness. In my mind. When it comes to fitness,
Speaker 1: it's an interesting one because I don't want you to think,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Sam's going to tell us if we
Speaker 1: don't like our fitness routine after ten days, we're allowed
Speaker 1: to throw in the towel. We've got his permission. No,
Speaker 1: that's not what I'm saying. When it comes to your fitness,
Speaker 1: or you're eating or whatever, it might be something you've
Speaker 1: decided you're going to apply yourself to to get some
Speaker 1: results because you know you need to be better in
Speaker 1: this space, training more, getting fitter, getting stronger, eating better,
Speaker 1: getting leaner, feeling better, whatever it might be. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a matter of am I enjoying it necessarily?
Speaker 1: Because often it takes a lot longer than sort of
Speaker 1: ten days to enjoy these, and often we like how
Speaker 1: it makes us feel and look rather than we like
Speaker 1: what we're doing in the moment. So you should be
Speaker 1: asking yourself, is it working? So I'm ten days into
Speaker 1: my new fitness routine, is it working? And I mean
Speaker 1: if you're genuinely applying yourself, if you've been pretty good
Speaker 1: with your food and you've limited your alcohol intake and
Speaker 1: you've started a new fitness routine and you're ten days in,
Speaker 1: absolutely ask yourself is it working? And if it's not,
Speaker 1: change now. It might not be working for a number
Speaker 1: of reasons. It might not be working because you have
Speaker 1: only been once out of ten days because you hate it.
Speaker 1: That's a good reason to change. Find something that you
Speaker 1: enjoy a lot more, and your chances are you'll be
Speaker 1: a lot more consistent with it. If you're more consistent
Speaker 1: with it, you'll get better results. But don't bang your
Speaker 1: head against a brick wall and continue down a path
Speaker 1: because of this sunk cost fallacy where you feel like
Speaker 1: I've come this far. I don't want to turn around
Speaker 1: now because it was a waste of energy. I don't
Speaker 1: want this to be missing. Interpreters like Sam's giving me
Speaker 1: the thumbs up to give up on everything because there's
Speaker 1: absolutely not what I'm saying. In fact, I'm typically a
Speaker 1: person that says the opposite. You've got to stick these
Speaker 1: things out. But pivoting and being decisive in life can
Speaker 1: be really, really powerful. And if you have given something
Speaker 1: a proper chance of working and it's clearly not, and
Speaker 1: you know yourself well enough to know that it's never
Speaker 1: going to work. It's far worse to keep going than
Speaker 1: it is to make the change. Big homework if you
Speaker 1: could change in your job. Little homework. If you're in
Speaker 1: a fitness routine that you've just started in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: and this is a good little checkpoint on your calendar
Speaker 1: of is it working or is it working for me?
Speaker 1: And if not, let's change it up. So my homework.
Speaker 1: Make the assessment of yourself. If it is working, keep going.
Speaker 1: If it's not working, try something else. And it might
Speaker 1: take four or five or six different things. You have
Speaker 1: to try to find your thing that you stick to
Speaker 1: consistently that you get the results that you're looking for.