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Loss aversion bias I'd love to one day leave my tiny hometown in Canada and get exposed to foreign cultures (primarily interested in US/Japan/Germany). However
by trinovantes 6y ago
Loss aversion bias
I'd love to one day leave my tiny hometown in Canada and get exposed to foreign cultures (primarily interested in US/Japan/Germany). However, I find it hard to stomach tossing out the ~$10k worth of crap that I've accumulated over the years so that I can move abroad -- even though I've heard from my friends that top companies have ludicrous signing bonuses that can allow me to replace everything.
Maybe once Covid is finally under control in a year or two, I'll be able to overcome my personal bias. For now, I'll focus on studying foreign languages in my spare time and avoid impulse buying.
- jkcorrea 6y agoA friend once told me, right after I had settled in to my first cozy big tech job: "you should be uncomfortable being too comfortable". May be the single most useful advice I've ever received. Also, having lived in Tokyo for a year, just freakin do it. So much new things to learn there. oh, and ironically that friend has stayed at their cozy corporate gig and doesn't seem to heed their own sage advice very much :/