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The Science of Quitting (Rebroadcast)

A Slight Change of Plans

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What Is the Game, Katamari?

Annie Drexler: I'd love to dig into some of the behavioral biases we face that interfere with our ability to quit when we ought to. Do you mind talking with listeners about escalation of commitment? Sure. She says Katamari is a game where it's the weirdest game. You start with this little tiny speck of something and you roll it around and it starts to pick stuff up, growing in size. If you try to pick something bigger than the ball that you're rolling around, it will cause the ball to become smaller again. And so on until you have like this Katamari that's the size of a planet and you can't quit at that point

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