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Premature-abandonment anti-pattern: overcorrecting from sunk
Premature-abandonment anti-pattern: overcorrecting from sunk cost awareness into abandoning commitments too readily, using "sunk cost fallacy" as an intellectual excuse to quit whenever difficulty arises rather than distinguishing genuine sunk costs from investments still generating returns
Why This Is an Anti-Pattern
Inverts sunk-cost-persistence (Sunk-cost-persistence pattern: the irrational tendency to) by overcorrecting. Violates Cognitive Dissonance Drives Information Avoidance (calibration). Recurs in serial quitting, commitment phobia, relationship pattern.