Intro While the title speaks for itself, it doesn’t explain why I’ve taken hours of time to write this in its entirety and then plaster it all over the internet instead of just spending that time studying or doing anything else. The reasons are as such: The Sunk Cost Fallacy. There’s a quirk of human brains where sometimes we spend a lot of time/money/effort on something, realize we don’t even want the outcome anymore, but do the thing anyway so that our time/money/effort doesn’t “go to waste.” I’ve spent a lot of time starting this studying journey by writing this article, so that my brain is tricked into not wanting to give up on it–despite the fact that my reasons for continuing have nothing to do with the amount of time I spent writing about studying before I begin. I’m not sure if that makes sense to anyone reading this, but it makes sense to me, which is all that matters, at the end of the day. Perceived Accountability. I just made that term up right now! In a nutshell, ...