I would say REMEMBER THE SUNK COST FALLACY (in fact, get it tattooed on your hands so you’re forced to look at it whenever you’re typing some boring paper you don’t care about). If a subject is surprisingly uninspiring, college is a great time to realize that isn’t what you want to be doing for the rest of your life.
The majority of my best friends and I ended up in suboptimal majors, even though we realized they were suboptimal in time to switch. What’s sad is that we all knew about the sunk cost fallacy, and even discussed it, but didn’t take our realizations seriously enough soon enough. Eventually it will be too late to change (at least without taking extra time) but there’s usually a window where you will have misgivings, but will want to squish them furiously so you don’t have to go through the mini crisis of faith.
Listen for those misgivings, and take them seriously when they pop up. Look at the long-term benefit of doing something else, not just the short-term logistical and psychological hassle it’ll cause.
This might all seem super obvious, and it was to me, but I still did it all wrong, and short of projecting “SUNK COST FALLACY” across the sky like a rationalist Bat-Signal, I’m not sure what more I can do for you.
I would say REMEMBER THE SUNK COST FALLACY (in fact, get it tattooed on your hands so you’re forced to look at it whenever you’re typing some boring paper you don’t care about). If a subject is surprisingly uninspiring, college is a great time to realize that isn’t what you want to be doing for the rest of your life.
The majority of my best friends and I ended up in suboptimal majors, even though we realized they were suboptimal in time to switch. What’s sad is that we all knew about the sunk cost fallacy, and even discussed it, but didn’t take our realizations seriously enough soon enough. Eventually it will be too late to change (at least without taking extra time) but there’s usually a window where you will have misgivings, but will want to squish them furiously so you don’t have to go through the mini crisis of faith.
Listen for those misgivings, and take them seriously when they pop up. Look at the long-term benefit of doing something else, not just the short-term logistical and psychological hassle it’ll cause.
This might all seem super obvious, and it was to me, but I still did it all wrong, and short of projecting “SUNK COST FALLACY” across the sky like a rationalist Bat-Signal, I’m not sure what more I can do for you.