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Why we stick to familiar paths unnecessarily

I've been driving the same route to work for three years because I'm afraid of getting lost even though GPS makes that basically impossible.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Habits of caution can outlive the dangers they were meant to protect us from.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Risk-taking — philosophy and psychology?”

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