The tendency to keep choosing a known source of stress and unhappiness every day rather than step into the unknown, because we are creatures of habit and the unknown feels scarier.
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People would rather choose familiar pain than step into that unknown.
- The unknown scares us more than the bad
People stay in stressful, unfulfilling situations not because they expect something worse elsewhere but because the bare space of not knowing is intolerable. Habit makes familiar pain the…