sunk-cost

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Turn trapped grief into honest release.

Authorwojons
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

Sunk-cost thinking keeps people trapped in projects, relationships, and endeavors they already know are failing by confusing past investment with what should determine the next step.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Reframes the “fallacy” as lived grief: Treats the attachment as real, located in the self that was being built through the investment rather than in the investment itself.
  • Builds felt understanding from multiple wisdom traditions: Uses cross-cultural concepts (e.g., fanāʾ, hevel, mono no aware) to translate the emotional weight of letting go into language people can recognize inside themselves.
  • Provides situation-based tests and failure modes: Diagnoses hollowness in answers that only label biases, and verifies whether an explanation actually matches the lived experience.

Quick Start

Use the sunk-cost skill to help an AI explain why someone keeps going in a failing project or relationship despite knowing it should end.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

Standard package

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Name: sunk-cost
Download link: https://github.com/wojons/je-ne-sais-quoi/archive/main.zip#sunk-cost

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