Two pieces of shit and 1 100 million GDP

I once read a joke. It is said that two doctors of economics were walking on the road and saw a lump of shit on the road. A said to B, if you can eat, I'll give you 50 million. B thought, what's so hard about eating shit? So you can get 50 million. It's worth it So I ate the shit. A has to give B 5000 million. The more he thinks about it, the more he thinks it's not worthwhile. It's really a big loss to exchange such a piece of shit for 50 million. Luckily, I saw another piece of shit at this moment. A said, to be fair, if I can eat, you should also give me 50 million. B had no choice but to agree. A ate all the shit in one breath, so B gave A another 50 million. The two men walked forward again, thinking as they walked, and the more they thought, the more depressed they became. Nothing happened, so they ate two pieces of shit for no reason. If they really can't figure it out, go to their professor. After listening to the reason, the professor said excitedly, one hundred million, one hundred million, if you eat two pieces of shit, you will contribute one hundred million GDP to the national economy.

? This was originally just a joke, but we might as well interpret it this way. After every choice, we always take action, and we always invest in every action, whether it is manpower, material resources, financial resources or time. When we make the next choice, we will certainly take into account these early investments, whether they can be recovered or not, whether they are really valuable or not. In the end, the initial investment is like a universal glue, which sticks us to the original road and makes it impossible to make new choices, and often the greater the investment, the tighter it sticks us.

In economics, this unrecoverable upfront investment is called sunk cost. Sunk cost refers to the cost that cannot be changed by any decision now or in the future because the past decision has already taken place. In other words, the sunk cost is a kind of cost that Pakistan has paid but cannot recover.

? At the end of Shang Dynasty, there was a resourceful man named Jiang. Because the ancestors were sealed in Lu, they were also called Lushang. He assisted Zhou Wenwang and Zhou Wuwang.

The attack destroyed the Shang Dynasty and established the Zhou Dynasty. Later, he was sealed in the State of Qi, the ancestor of the State of Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Jiang Taigong used to be an official in Shang Dynasty, but because he was dissatisfied with Zhou Wang's brutal rule, he abandoned his official position and fled, living in seclusion in a relatively remote place near Weihe River in Shaanxi Province. In order to get the reuse of Duke Ji Chang (), he often pretended to fish with a straight hook by the river without bait. Jiang Taigong fished all day, and his family's life was in trouble. His wife Ma Shi thinks he is poor and has no future. She doesn't want to live with him anymore, she wants to leave him. Jiang Taigong repeatedly persuaded her not to do so, and said that he would become rich one day. But Ma thought he was lying to her, but he didn't believe it anyway. Jiang Taigong had no choice but to let her go.

Later, Jiang Taigong finally gained Zhou Wenwang's trust and reuse, helped Zhou Wuwang unite with the vassals to attack and destroy the Shang Dynasty and established the Western Zhou Dynasty. Ma Shi saw that he had money and status, and regretted leaving him, so he found Jiang Taigong and asked to restore his relationship.

Jiang Taigong saw through Ma Shi's personality and didn't want to restore relations with her, so he poured a pot of water on the ground and told Ma Shi to put it away. The horse hurried to fetch water from the ground, but only got some mud. So Jiang Taigong said to her coldly, "You have left me, so you can't be together anymore. This good proportion of water on the ground is difficult to recover! "

The water under the bridge is also a sunk cost. Love is long, hate is long. Why don't you remember your tenderness until you can't stay?

Ignoring the sunk cost also reflects a forward-looking mentality. For the whole life course, the detours, mistakes and setbacks we have gone through before are not sunk costs. Let bygones be bygones, always thinking that what cannot be changed can only be self-torture.

No matter what you said or did in the past, no matter right or wrong, no matter how you regret it, you can't change it, which is the same as the sunk cost. Yesterday's cost has been

After paying, whether you win or lose, it's all yesterday's expenses. Judging from today, these costs are the sunk costs of yesterday. People always regret when thinking about problems.

In fact, it was irrational at first, and it was to find pain for yourself. Therefore, we should admit the reality, bravely admit the right and wrong of our past words and deeds, and regard the unchangeable "wrong" as the bad debt loss of yesterday's business life and the sunk cost of today's business life. Facing today with a brand-new look is a healthy, happy and forward-looking attitude towards life. Go with this attitude.

Facing life, it is possible to go into battle lightly, and it is possible to have new success.

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