Once you've made a decision, it's tempting to protect it.

You explain why it made sense.

You collect evidence that you were right.

You defend the choice to other people.

And eventually, defending the decision can become more important than evaluating whether it is still working.

Test the Decision Before Defending It explores the value of treating your choices as something to examine rather than something your ego has to protect.

A decision can have been reasonable when you made it and still turn out to be wrong.

That doesn't mean you were foolish.

It means circumstances changed.

New information appeared.

Or reality revealed something you couldn't have known beforehand.

The danger comes when you confuse consistency with stubbornness.

You keep investing because you've already i ...