Let's talk about sunk costs and being wrong....

[@BeauoftheFifthColumn]

Have I ever used a story about being hired to do a security appraisal on a construction site to illustrate a point? A gate on the side of the building would've featured very prominently. (I'm not at the point where I can't remember if I've told a story in a video.)

[@BuckeyeChuck11]

Beau of the Fifth Column not that I am aware of, and I have been regularly tuning in to you for about one year

[@maryinsanfrancisco]

Doesn't ring a bell but I think I've been subscribed for less than a year.

[@ragingmonk6080]

Don't recall that one but I am still waiting on the how a bucket of paint and a jar of peanut butter..... lol

[@Ompasikom]

Don't think so.

[@darinhill3773]

If you did, I missed that one. I think I've seen everything you have done on this channel and apparently, the KZbin algorithm has put stuff in my feed that mentions you in it. Not a stalker but I think I can say if it was there I'd have seen it. I'm not afraid to be proven wrong tho, hell I might have been turning up a libation at the time and just flat missed it, but I doubt it

[@Bigdaddylobo1]

“Turns out the president wasn’t the person they thought he was.” Unless he was. For many, most, he turned out to be exactly the person they thought he was. THAT is the actual problem.

[@joestrat2723]

Very good point. He's always been an open book, reigning exactly how he told people he would. The problem is not Trump, but the GOP bs that they've been fertilizing the electorate with for decades. They were a cult, waiting for the messiah.

[@cherylalt101]

Bob Chaney Unfortunately, you're right about that. For a lot of voters, they're just pissed off at the broken system and they don't know what to do about it. They just wanted to cause a little pain, create some chaos. Too bad they didn't really consider that they themselves will probably be the very people most affected by these actions and then I think some are just racists angry that a black man was elected not once but twice.

[@amandaterrio4823]

For them the hate is what they like

[@bmel7718]

They are called accelerationists

[@jimmydyurko]

Most of the people I know who supported him in 2016 love everything he's done. They think he's great. He's not the problem, he's just a symptom. The only difference between him and the "establishment" is how incredibly transparent his incompetence and corruption is.

[@victoriaedge2011]

I didn't like him, but he lost any benefit of the doubt with me when the hurricane hit Puerto Rico

[@margaretnicol3423]

👍 Puerto Rico is still a disgrace. I think he still has some funding that he hasn't passed over. Or raking the forest floor whilst cutting back on their funding.

[@annmarieknapp]

Trump lost me when he bankrupted 3 casinos in my home state and screwed thousands of people out of their jobs and incomes. He has just gotten worse with time to the point of absurdity. Grab them by the p-word was when I knew he had absolutely no honor.

[@johndifrancisco3642]

From day one.

[@shaisag1]

Victoria Edge ❤️

[@rhodawatkins4516]

annmarieknapp Those examples are exactly why I can't believe there wasn't more pushback against him as even being a candidate, much less the actual nominee for any party. There were close to 20 candidates to choose from and this is what people chose? Idiocracy indeed.

[@pakde8002]

Convincing someone that they've been stupid is a lot harder when they're actually butt stupid and proud of it.

[@HotelPapa100]

That's the problem with this new partisanship. It has become fashionable to flout ones stupidity.

[@ChrisPage68]

@@HotelPapa100 They lack the wisdom of knowing they're stupid.

[@boughtbot2639]

Lack of self awareness.......conservative trait.

[@Patricia-zt8ub]

well said!

[@ambersmith3387]

Pak De Thats defined as Dunning-Krueger, and also a very accurate statement.

[@aprilrichards762]

My dad refuses to admit he's wrong. He also seems to think a woman can't know more than him. His sister is WORSE! If you insult Trump around her, she throws a huge temper tantrum!! There is a reason I avoid family gatherings.

[@jeffrobdine]

My sister and I do not speak because of Trump, he is toxic !

[@GlasgowCelticBhoy]

@@jeffrobdine My family is Scottish, and we emigrated to Australia in 1991. My dad now lives by himself, gorging on a diet of Foxtel - and in particular Fox News. I flew over to his state (Western Australia) recently and saw him for the first time in about a year, and the conversation went political. He has become a Trump fanatic! When I was tearing into his arguments and reasoning, he ended up saying "so you're a bloody demorat". I mean, what the hell? I'm not American, I've never been to the US, neither has he. I started asking about Australian politics, and his response was "I've not been keeping up to date with that". So, yes J See - I'm sorry you and your sister don't speak anymore, that is truly tragic. I'm on a different part of the planet, and it has impacted my family - so I can only imagine what you guys have to put up with. In the end, they can only help themselves. It's not your fault, nor mine. And if they pass away, and we weren't on talking terms, we cannot beat ourselves up about it. I hope you and your sister find each other again one day.

[@bigvalley4987]

April Richards I do not blame you.😢

[@annmarieknapp]

People like that can't be reasoned with. I can't deal with it. And they make millions of excuses for him.

[@ericellis3506]

There is a reason why they say never talk politics or religion at the dining table.

[@TheDreamSyndicateArts]

"Sunk cost fallacy"= don't keep making the same mistake because you've already spent a lot of time making it.

[@joeyj6808]

If you find yourself in a deep hole, first: stop digging!

[@Kalleosini]

more like "don't hold on to your mistake just because you put time/effort/money into it"

[@hitreset0291]

@@joeyj6808 First Rule of Holes. 👍

[@jivet3919]

And here we are with Joe Biden as the dem nominee...

[@rhodawatkins4516]

JiveT He's still better than trump. Here's hoping he selects an excellent, qualified, and extremely competent VP. That way if anything goes wrong, she, (since he said he would select a female), would be fully ready to step into the role as president if needed.

[@bramharms72]

Conmen are very adept at using sunk costs against their prey. "I know I didn't deliver, but if you just spend a little more..."

[@TheObersalzburg]

Absolutely right! I lent a decent amount of money to a relative, and didn't hear a peep for almost a year. I just waited, and he called and said his situation had been bad, didn't know what to say, etc. Then he said he needed more so he could get on his feet to pay all of it back. Last talked to him in 1990.

[@bdf2718]

My client is President of a large country. He wishes to smuggle money he made corruptly out of the country. If you open a shared bank account, I will transfer this money into that account and we can share it between us. I'm so glad you opened the account. I'm having problems with lawyers and accountants, please put $10,000 into the account so I can pay them, then I can put the dictator's money into the account. I can see this scam becoming popular for a while....

[@peacheswilliams4539]

Or it was just someone else's fault why that thing didn't happen. It wasn't my fault.

[@Kalysta]

Sounds like every single "prosperity gospel" preacher on TV.

[@bramharms72]

@@TheObersalzburg Well done. I like the saying: "If you loan someone a hundred, and you never see them again, you made a great deal." With someone so shameless as to come back for more, almost any amount is a great price for getting them out of your life.

[@HeckleJeckle87]

The sunk cost fallacy can also be applied to the War on Terror(an other conflicts). America has invested so much time, energy, money, and blood, that any call to stop, reevaluate the situation, etc, is met with cries that we can not quite now, that we have to keep trying because all of that time, energy, money, and blood would of been spent in vain.

[@chezmoi42]

Yup, same with the war on drugs. Somehow, the war on poverty, not so much.

[@rotwang2000]

Look up the Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam War. Everybody involved knew the war was a terrible idea and it was getting nowhere. Instead of saying "Ok We effed up this one, what can we learn from this ?" They decided to create a "Stabbed in the back." Myth, or how John Rambo puts it in one of the later movies "Are we allowed to win this time ?"

[@kenwelch198]

@@chezmoi42 I had the same thought. So many in politics and law enforcement will never admit it was a bad idea that completely failed and actually made the problem worse.

[@yg2522]

Honestly, I'm not so sure how much of that is actually sunk cost vs just how powerful the military industrial complex really is. That industry wants to keep the $$ flowing in after all. If the media started to report and even spin to the opposite of what that industry wanted, would people actually push back and say we need a bigger military anyways?

[@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas]

@mxt mxt Beau is fine with pulling out of said countries, it is just how we do it. Do we abandon the people we was fighting along side like with Trump or do we still try to nation build still after we leave. Beau wasn't against troops getting pulled out of Syria, but Trump green lighting Turkey involvement which negatively effects the Kurds and sour are relationship with them. Beau isn't about fucking over the people who was trying to help our nation, such as the Kurds which trump did. BTW it was under Obama we all combat action stopped in Iraq and massive with drawl, for time there was trainers left just to help build Iraq military up... Beau didn't have anything negative to say about that. Why because we wasn't fucking over the people on the ground who will be there after we left. Do you see a theme there. Not fucking over the people we were working with that's beau issue with Trumps pull. For you to frame that any other way is dishonest, very dishonest.

[@loletafetty4963]

I saw this in a comment on KZbin yesterday. If Obama had said I have absolute power, Conservative Evangelicals would be in church with their eyes rolled back in their heads, speaking in tongues and twirling a rattlesnake in each hand. LMAO I laughed so hard. Twirling rattlesnakes got me. Thank you Beau for another great video. You are a national treasure. You are our modern day Will Roger's. God bless you and your family.

[@dankolar6066]

"I love the poorly educated." - Donald Trump

[@jamc666]

"I know wooooords, i have the best wooords" .... Donald Jackass Trump. Only this sentence should've been disqualifying and a warning about what was to come.

[@PhiOpsAurelio]

@@jamc666 Infinitely worse was when Trump said on Fox & Friends, in December of 2015, "when you get the terrorists, you have to take out their families".

[@annmarieknapp]

@Michael Cheeser God, your comment made my day!! Couldn't have said that better. Spot on!!!

[@jivet3919]

It’s easy to be against Trump. We got problems bigger than Trump. If we don’t address those, the next Trump will be worse and competent

[@ph5915]

@Michael Cheeser Agreed! Shouldn't "We the People" have an option to remove a President if the Senate won't (impeachment) and the cabinet won't (25th Amendment) WITHOUT having to wait for the next election? Every minute that goes by and he is still there is horrible.

[@watchtyme]

"People are easily fooled, convincing people they have been fooled is difficult" ~Mark Twain

[@charlesputnam9370]

I read a lot of Mark Twain his view of the human condition is unsettling but a lot of truth in it.

[@kristinkimberly3469]

Oooh that's a goodie..

[@DenverRalphy]

Here's another from Mark Twain that reinforces that quote... "Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time, and it just annoys the pig".

[@watchtyme]

@@DenverRalphy 😂Yes, so true and he said that too!

[@stephens8175]

"When people show you who they are, believe them the first time." Maya Angelou

[@candacecasey5634]

I love Maya♥️

[@donna30044]

"But . . . the Titanic is unsinkable!" 😥

[@Kalleosini]

ahh yes the titanic, what a perfect analogy for our sinking society. it will go down fast enough that we can't take our stuff with us, but slow enough that the most privileged will get on lifeboats in time. While the Hindenburg crashed and burned leaving no survivors, such fortunate circumstance will not befall us, we will live to suffer the consequences of our hubris.

[@petermatthews3729]

It was true before and until they hit the iceberg. Just not considered enough of a risk to have enough lifeboats for all the passengers. People acted like having the lifeboats would have been a sunk cost instead of an insurance policy so they did not have enough for all. Just because you don't know how something can sink does not mean it can't.

[@nickv1008]

Ankle Donna, it wasn't the Titanic.

[@timmethy]

I know right? All those commie scientists and engineers telling us the Titanic might sink. Fake News.

[@nickv1008]

@@timmethy that was actually the Olympic that they sank for the insurance money, just like the twin towers, condemned for asbestos, were imploded for the insurance. Wonder why the pandemic?

[@piperdragon3200]

For some reason this made me think of one definition of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

[@Mondfischli]

... that's playing the lottery, right? 🤔 ..😆..🤧..😷

[@Dsonsee]

There's no two ways of seeing it: that man will walk on a pile of corpses to get his way

[@purpleflametarot39]

@ - 32,000 today; from 20,000 two days ago. Edit:. 32,000 was yesterday. It is 34,180 (so far) today. :'(

[@fuzzydunlop1988]

This would explain why he still believed the Central Park Five were guilty after they were proven innocent.

[@db5823]

Bingo

[@Tenly2009]

Actually - they weren’t. Nobody is ever “proven innocent”, they are just found to be guilty or “not guilty”... but I agree with the point you were making. As far as I know, Trump has never, ever admitted that he made a mistake. When something goes wrong, he *always* blames it on someone else. And the opposite is true also - when something goes right - no matter who is actually responsible - Trump claims he’s responsible for the good thing that happened.

[@ShermThursby]

I think that's because he's a racist. I found out my Dad's a racist also. That sucked.

[@jptrout235]

Trump or his supporters will never admit they are wrong. I've been waiting on this video and it's long overdue.

[@charlesputnam9370]

They will support him no matter if they have to give up democracy and economy completely collapse s. I think they might quit belief if they are standing in a bread line homeless. Which is going to happen to a lot of them if they don't do more to help unemployed.

[@tori2dles]

Part of it is that they listen to “news” that tells them they are right.

[@charlesputnam9370]

@@tori2dles went to get some Marine gas for chainsaw and the attendant told me the media was lying about pandemic that it was no worse than the flue . Wonder where he heard that. He was wearing a mask.

[@cherylalt101]

tori2dles For sure and the other part is they listen to other republican leaders who have abandoned all sense of truth and responsibility and will parrot whatever they are told, and the vicious circle goes around and around. When Trump won the election and had already been spinning a narrative for losing that the election was rigged, he had to quickly change his talking points. During the confusion, I remember him being asked if he still claimed Obama birth certificate was fake along with the election being rigged, Trump just laughed, actually laughed and said something like what can I say, ok you caught me, we can drop that story now. All the trouble he caused, the folks where we all knew this was racism pure and simple that Trump tapped into, the arguments of families and friends, the rumors about Obama and others that were totally unfounded, and the destructiveness to our country, and he laughed and just admitted he didn't need that lie anymore, so let's let it die. But those supporters continue to believe the same old tired lies even after Trump was actually honest. If you listen carefully, every now and then, he actually tells the truth.

[@bobbyharper8710]

Liberal run cities are the only problem facing the nation. People certainly don't want more democrat leadership.

[@ChrisPage68]

It's being in a hole and rejecting a ladder in favour of a shovel.

[@clarkpalace]

Great

[@targetstore949]

Thanks, that made me smile

[@craighandberg8196]

"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir " John Maynard Keynes

[@hanskuijsten2380]

It's called "learning". People should try it.

[@RonSparks2112]

Science is all about eliminating the intellectual sunk cost fallacy. That is literally how it works. That's WHY it works. That's why we need it.

[@cheryal6661]

@@RonSparks2112 👍Yep. Those who are incapable of admitting past failures are often doomed to repeat them. Never stop learning folks. New infornation comes about daily, that's why it's called news. There's nothing fake about it, and even though some people's interpretation of said new information may be incorrect, it's still not fake. That too, is news. Live and learn. Stay safe, take care. ❤✌

[@scottgriggs2596]

Trump supporters invent alternative facts.

[@dianneagain3830]

Every time I talk to my one neighbor it turns in to one of those conversations where I feel like I'm talking to a victim of abuse who won't leave because they are in a sunk cost trap. It doesn't take much of an investment for people to get too invested to let go.

[@shawn2004grad]

Dianne Again I like your analogy.

[@annmarieknapp]

We call it cognitive dissonance in psych field. You heavily invest in something and can't back out no matter how awful, because you might have to admit you were wrong and failed. Well, it's okay to be wrong as long as we take responsibility and learn from our mistakes. Trump is incapable of that. He sees himself as the victim no matter what situation.

[@jima1135]

Textbook Cognitive Dissonance.

[@daniellanctot6548]

Jim A - 👍 And moving the goalpost.

[@economicist2011]

@@daniellanctot6548 ... into a baseball stadium.

[@mid_life_crisis13]

About 25 years ago, my wife and I would visit my brother in North Central PA for Thanksgiving. On one visit, my brother’s brother-in-law who was always there for the holiday criticized my wife and I for saying something negative about Rush Limbaugh. He said we “didn’t understand him” among other things. Later that night my wife asked me if he was being condescending and indirectly calling us too stupid to understand Limbaugh. I agreed that that I got the same feeling. We haven’t been back for Thanksgiving since.

[@rickuslastname6305]

I constantly hope I'm wrong. Mostly about humanity. I really really hope I'm wrong.

[@Kalleosini]

but they keep proving you right

[@lamar2120]

Just give up already... realize the truth about humanity

[@conversationsfromthefringe3180]

Lost that hope years ago..we are doomed to annihilation..we are lazy and expect our voted in betters to have our best interests at heart, since the concept of hierarchy, we’ve thought that our path to freedom is to give others control over us, where fairness and equality is an ideal but is in contradiction of the very foundation of what we built with the hierarchy. We are born into a system, not of our choice but of our stupidity because each generation continues the fallacy of the ideal.

[@franglish9265]

I'd rather have a cat running things right now, because at least a cat will act arbitrary and capricious, but that's their nature, they're a cat, and they won't contradict experts, or lie.

[@katthudson9131]

They might just crap in your shoe though.

[@gibbyrex522]

@@katthudson9131 And definitely knock stuff off the counter.

[@SandraNelson063]

Oh, but they DO lie!! Everyday!😼

[@franglish9265]

@@katthudson9131 but they're a cat, one doesn't expect them to not do what cats do.

[@katthudson9131]

@@gibbyrex522 And stare right at you as they do it then look down to watch it shatter.

[@bradmcewen]

That hammer hit the nail square on the head. Thus the reason for the cult of a narcissistic personality. Kindred finds kindred.

[@soseconds6591]

So . . . Birds of a feather flock together?

[@bradmcewen]

@@soseconds6591 Like mindsets enable like mindsets. Essentially a narcopath is nothing without flying monkeys. The utter inability to travel through the cognitive dissonance of a prior belief being wrong because of embarrassment or a social circle stigma. The cult. Exactly what this video was about.

[@misswiddershins]

I'm right, I'm wrong, I learn, I change.

[@annala2956]

He can’t even admit he’s wrong when he uses the wrong word. We all do that sometimes. But when he does it he adds “..and [insert correct word]” He’s incapable of even seeing “wrong” in his thoughts or actions

[@loletafetty4963]

That's because he's a raging narcissist. They are never wrong. Trust me I was unfortunately married to one. Pure hell.

[@staomruel]

The furniture.... and the future of our children.

[@serenity6831]

I've noticed this as well. You can't not notice it with Trump, and by in large, his fanbase

[@db5823]

It's just a sign of how incredibly weak and insecure he is.

[@annala2956]

Loleta Fetty I was too. You’re spot on in your assessment

[@kansascityjimi2531]

Although I like in your conversation with a Trump supporter, how they answer the question. It's been my person experience, you get one of the three answers. First Obama did it too, 2nd Hillary is a crook, and third Trump 20/20. (usually yelled) and that's it.

[@donanders2110]

Most say, he is still better than KILLARY!

[@peacheswilliams4539]

😂

[@kansascityjimi2531]

@@donanders2110 I've heard that one but not in direct response to a question. They think they're clever, with killary and libtard and democrook . Which is Rich considering they just made off of trillions

[@pismodoug1321]

So spot on. Amazing how seemingly learned people are trying to will their way around obvious complete ineptness.

[@Tam5115]

For the second time in just a few days, a video pops up that has the message I needed to hear. You were saying that when you talk to someone about Trump, and how they will just deny any and every little thing you may show them? I got one better. A friend for 40 plus years, a best friend in fact, would never have a conversation or debate. She just ran around on my posts, calling it a farce, laughing at the very idea Trump wasn't doing a great job. Last night she really flipped out! Just a stream of words with many exclamation points after each word. You take the gates vaccine! Microchipped! Commies! DemoRats!... it was insane. I thought it was a joke, I mean, really? People began to notice and some came in and called her crazy, and she was flying the bird at everyone, but then... she got personal. I didn't want to go there, but within 5 minutes or so after her first couple of digs, she called me a narcissist, a control freak, that I've always brainwashed her and now she sees the truth about me and I'm just basically a mentally ill drain on society. Oh boy, then I got pissed and brought up something personal on her. Her response was "you need to tread carefully" I told her to bring it on! but not a peep from her since. Imagine that, a 40 year friendship destroyed over Trump! Unbelievable.

[@DLKalberg]

Alcohol and Fear?

[@ericellis3506]

The virus is cooking up some high pressure situations.

[@soseconds6591]

That is so sad. Misplaced values.

[@clarkpalace]

I agree unbelievable. Up here in Canada I ve never met anyone who would support the mango turd. I cant imagine knowing anyone that stupid or prone to weakness

[@libradragon]

@Tammy Nelson Unfortunate as your experience is, and I am so sorry to hear this, what we are now experiencing needs to happen. It is part of a painful growth for human beings that we mature through an inevitable and very painful time together, or perish before we might learn something about ourselves. And, each other. This time is a living consciousness raising experience. I hope that we grow up to it, learn from it, evolve with it, so we can embrace our similarities and see them more than our differences. It is a tough gig. We must be up to the challenge here.

[@jamesmasters8924]

It seems to be a common feature of the prominent American idea of "masculinity".

[@kimberlysmith7793]

He showed a lack of character the minute he cheated on ALL three of his wives.

[@contentioushackery]

I am still bitter that all he had to do was go speak at Liberty University and carry around a Bible he never opened for a couple weeks like a cheap prop and the religious right embraced him. Oh, Franklin Graham declared him a "Baby Christian"? Really? Would you like to see the video of Trump being asked if he has ever asked God for forgiveness and Trump saying he would rather just act in such a way that he doesn't need to ask for forgiveness? But you're sure he is God's Anointed? Sunk Cost is a good analogy because it isn't just that they would have to admit they were wrong about Trump, they would have to admit that their religious leaders were wrong about Trump, and Mainstream Media isn't lying about him, and right-wing news sources are also lying. If they lied about that you might have to question if lower taxes really fix everything, and maybe government isn't bad at everything, and maybe big business shouldn't regulate itself.

[@serenity6831]

I love how you connect these two seemingly different ideas. You have a very healthy way of looking at the human experience, one that truly is for the people. I appreciate you!

[@daniellanctot6548]

You are asking Americans to admit they were wrong? ... I think you’d have a much better chance to teach Canadians you purposefully bumped into to not say “Sorry!” to you!

[@SandraNelson063]

Oh, sorry, eh?

[@zinaj9437]

It's a variation of tribalism which is a kind of racism not based on real or fixed things.

[@serenity6831]

Sore-y 🥴

[@MorrigansRaven3944]

Facts!💯

[@marytakahashi4275]

It’s all marketing and presentation. We need to figure out how to make being wrong cool.

[@svenelven138]

True story: I was arguing with a coworker over an issue at work, and I was vigorously defending my position to the point the argument was getting heated, then she said something I didn't know about the issue. I thought about it for a second and realized that was why she held her position and I agreed! I was like "oh, didn't know that, so then, yeah, you're right." I was blindsided by the fact that she was now furious at me for changing my mind, she said (and I quote) "you can't just do that!" I explained that she told me something I didn't know and it changed everything, so now I agreed. She acted as thought I was messing with her, I wasn't and to be honest is was one of the most surreal experiences of my life. I am wrong a lot, to the point that I go to Google to settle points made, but I still remember that conversation almost 20 years later.

[@changeshifter4852]

This kind of thing has happened to me more than once. Still completely surreal every time. Somehow, thinking responsibly, speaking honestly and taking responsibility has become unpredictable behaviour. Our ruining their expectations of the conversation catches them off guard, but they can't be the ones who are wrong, so they respond in anger because it must be our fault for making them feel that way. That is how it feels to me anyway. Cheers.

[@dontcare3430]

Keep doubling down, until you got nothing left ! !!! And we are on our collective way there.

[@justincapable]

Sunk cost fallacy also applies to bad relationships. Sometimes it is better to cut your loses and get rid of the drama holding you back.

[@trentgarland522]

Amen

[@ChrisPage68]

Or accepting YOU were the cause of the split, not them.

[@hubertusb.137]

Socrates on KZbin: "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." People: Unsubscribe

[@libradragon]

^^ Sadly accurate and truly brilliant. ^^

[@charlesputnam9370]

That made him the wiset of all the Greeks.

[@jamessneed8789]

Anybody who tries to defend Trump has already drinken the Kool-Aid

[@bluntslayer]

my dude ... why vote biden ... honestly....

[@jeffrobdine]

@@bluntslayer Because he can admit when he's wrong and make it right, he is not a liar and con-man !

[@hitreset0291]

So when both Biden and Trump drop out of the presidential race, who do you recommend I not vote for then?

[@maanihamskii6392]

You mean drunkded lol

[@Mrmedia046]

Bruce Boring and the one we have isn’t?!

[@JonathanLoganPDX]

Being wrong is one thing. LEARNING from our mistakes and seeing them as an opportunity to grow better is another. Learning from our mistakes is called wisdom and insight. But first you have to understand that something is a mistake or failure before you can learn from it. In the military they have an after action review so they can constantly learn and improve. Our president is incapable of understanding his failures and mistakes. As such she is incapable of improving.

[@zinaj9437]

POTUS Trump's inability to accept pr process new information is why he should be removed from office. Invoke the incapacitation clause of the 25th Amendment. We can't wait (and hope) until November. Imagine how high the body count will be by then...it could include someone you love.

[@BigHenFor]

Sometimes, failure is your friend, and quitting is the path to freedom.

[@tonyjones1560]

Oh, how I wish I'd said this!

[@akeleven]

Who wants to tell KellyAnn Conway " You invested 3 years in a loser. Time to cut and run"

[@EastSider48215]

It’s too late for her. She is tied to Trump for the rest of her life, but I think she both knows and is counting on that. I doubt that it matters to her what the wider world thinks of her as long as she continues to profit from her association with him. Look at Palin: being a public embarrassment has supported her for that last 12 years.

[@ernststravoblofeld]

She and George will put out a book that will make it all worthwhile, and retire.

[@JustTheTruth-Please]

I've not looked it up but I bet KellyAnn has a lovely big salary. She is like the talking heads on the news, she is spouting what she is told to spout for money. She is a well paid puppet. George makes money by playing the other side of the fence. They make money from both the left and the right. Brilliant, actually. Disgusting but brilliant.

[@pietrojenkins6901]

I laughed out so loud the other day when she we're at Covid-19 .Her ignorance on live TV thinking we've already had Covid 1 ,2 ,3 and so on.

[@kyle9401]

@@pietrojenkins6901 whoa she said that? "This is the nineteenth covid now! I can only imagine the 20th!" How astounding.....

[@tompattinson528]

Bang on as always ✊

[@williamdegeest]

Same thought process that leads to "zealotry of the convert."

[@MrGuss1963]

You also become more more lost within yourself when you believe something that's not true

[@rokyerefinsoxoff]

Keep speakin truth, Beau. Very well articulated.

[@suzannemcneal7320]

My boyfriend calls it throwing good money after bad. He'll be tickled to know it's an actual thing! Well said and even better explained Beau.

[@xoxonaotchan_7902]

This video was needed. What a mature way to make this video. Your the best beau

[@friendbruce878]

I can't remember who said this, and I'm paraphrasing. But the greatest asset a smart man has is to know how much he doesn't know. You are 100% correct Beau. It's ok to be wrong, but only if you accept it and allow others around you to accept it. The only way we learn is to accept that some people know more about some stuff than we do. AND LISTEN TO THEM.!!

[@lonewolffang]

What most supporters say and imply is closer to Stockholm Syndrome and Cultist tribalism combined into one and some of the others are having buyer's remorse after realizing they got screwed in my opinion.

[@osmanjeffrey]

Beau, keep on keeping on Brother!

[@marcc5028]

Bingo: we need Leadership ... Thank you for your fine wisdom as always

[@amalias8888]

This is a great point. Pride keeps people from seeing reality.

[@elizabethsullivan7176]

Making mistakes is how people learn, or, at least, those people who WANT to learn.

[@ArtistNRecovery]

An excellent video. And thank you for the knowledge. 👍

[@snixelpig]

Hi Beau we have 3500 dead in NJ from Corona ,and I'm pretty sure no one cares.Edit :I'm sorry if I offended anyone here in the comment's ,I was checking NJ's death toll while watching this clip and kinda just thought out loud. I did not mean the people here don't care. The comment's showed me that in spades . Most of the people that watch Beau are really good people.I also didn't mean any disrespect to Beau either, Sorry if it came off that way to anyone. I was touched by how many of you commented.

[@mackenziedrake]

A lot of people care. They left families, friends, and community. Decent people care, whether they live in NJ, CA or wherever. I care, and am someone.

[@soseconds6591]

We care.

[@stanny141beech]

Your president probably doesn’t but we the people do. Love and peace from Canada 🇨🇦

[@Blue_Newt_01]

I’m right on the border in PA and can say that we care and may be headed in that direction too. My MIL died of the virus in a nursing home in NJ... please take care.

[@maggierezac5820]

@@Blue_Newt_01 Sincere Condolences on your MIL's death. Was she at the same nursing home where they found the 17 bodies in the morgue built for 4? "Because it was a Holiday Weekend" they? couldn't do anything? WTF! It was Easter weekend, were they expecting them to possibly Rise?🤦‍♀️ So, yes, to the OP here, I am in the cluster of South Dakota & I completely do care about this mess in all of our nation and beyond! But hey, here in SD? "Meth, We're on it!" -Gov. Kristi Noem circa 2019.

[@maremma14]

Well said, Beau. I'm reminded of a T shirt I saw a long time ago that you might want to add to your collection. It said, "I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken."

[@guapodesperado2822]

Woo-hoo! Beau with the Behavioral Economics theory for the win!

[@terig3249]

we have no qualified leaders in DC! hence our dilemma! good video!

[@TheNeoVid]

Short explanation of the Sunk Costs Fallacy: "Everything we've already wasted is pointless if we don't waste more!"

[@maxineamon]

That was what the Vietnam War deteriorated into

[@Kalleosini]

yep, that is it.

[@zinaj9437]

That was why Vietnam lasted so long and why President GW Bush doubled down in Iraq.

[@wordforger]

@@zinaj9437 That's why we're still in the Middle East, nearly 20 years on.

[@redrockcrf4663]

I always think of it in terms of gambling. People playing craps or the poker machines can't walk away, because all the losses must mean a big win is coming soon. If they quit they lose all that money! Not understanding conitional probabilities, that each random chance doesn't care bout their sunk costs at all

[@onderon4125]

The sounds of reason. Appreciate you a ton man!

[@sandragayle4806]

Beau, It is always ok to be wrong, it is how we learn and grow. We use what we learned and pass it along to others, then someone comes along and makes improvements.

[@WorldsOkayestSorcerer]

“We need to remind people it’s okay to be wrong.” Yeah. About that. That ain’t gonna work.

[@candacecasey5634]

It works with those of us who already know that we have been wrong and grown and evolved through learning and experience.

[@washyourface6851]

So right. Scary right. Living in Texas Trump loving country, I hear this about Trump almost daily: “I like him because he’s not afraid to just be who he is and he doesn’t apologize!” Wait. What? Since when is it an attribute to not apologize for the shitty stuff we do? Answer: When we’re all a bunch of greedy, aggressive sociopathic bigots.

[@amadeuschats]

Getting them to admit they are wrong is nearly impossible. We need to concentrate on the undecided and new voters! They need to know this and be informed of all the errors this Administration and 45 have done. Sometimes the best way to deflate someone is to turn away and Ignore Them!

[@brianbrill]

On the pile of necessary lessons for the world right now, this is near the top. Well stated.

[@cheriecullum9489]

This guy is brilliant

[@patsup3295]

This new beard is working

[@Dee-MuckGirlGardener]

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿💯💯 This is so TRUE!

[@Redpy5]

The idiom "In for a penny, in for a pound" comes to mind when describing this fallacy. Sadly too many take that as sage advice...

[@YadaBoyish]

I was so sure you were going to allude to the drawn out Vietnam War as THE prime example of the sunk cost fallacy's cruel devastating effect on a nation - our nation. But that was years ago, even though many who went through it still feel the sting. Thank you, Beau, for another candle in our fight.

[@frostlegacy-andfarbeyond466]

America is over. This phenomenon is not going to end any time soon, even after Orange Boy is gone. 04 17 2020.

[@VALUST17]

No one does second act comebacks like America.

[@roocnrola1973]

You nailed it Beau it’s so hard for people to admit they were Wrong and I agree we need true leadership at this time

[@curiousworld7912]

The problem is, so many people have invested their entire belief system in a man who was hailed as being 'plain-speaking'. Yet, how many times has Trump said something that someone has had to immediately rush to say, 'What he really meant was...'? But because this emotional investment has been made by his supporters, they're willing to overlook his utterly clueless statements or outright falsehoods, rather than to admit they were wrong in the first place.

[@zoushaomenohu]

We'll have a hard tine convincing people to cut their sunk cost losses if it means needing to admit some pretty ugly things about ourselves and our history...

[@dre_withwithout]

You shut up with all your making sense. Stop spreading impartial unbiased opions.

[@Kalleosini]

omg you can't just tell people to stop spreading opions. are you opion-phobic or something?

[@AngelaH2222]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@hubertusb.137]

Unsubscribe... :)

[@rickc2102]

Ebon and Phil can't detect sarcasm.

[@Amigo21189]

@@rickc2102 I think Ebon's making a silly play on the typo.

[@williamroop451]

It's okay to BE wrong... It's not okay to STAY wrong.

[@kabukiwookie]

"Be prepared to reexamine your reasoning."

[@kateandgeraldsmith2711]

Beau I absolutely love your videos. 99.99% of the time I agree with you. And this one is a perfect example why. I was having this exact discussion with my sister the other day about our mother and other "Trumptards". They don't want to admit they were wrong in voting for Trump therefore they continue to defend him and live in this state of denial.

[@roliepoliecolie2200]

Never ever liked the guy. He makes the hairs on my neck stand up while something is screaming in my ear, "stranger danger".....run!!!

[@grmpEqweer]

He creeps me out the same way.

[@kranzonguam]

Well, said, Beau! Good catch! The connection between sunk cost and thought...👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Stay safe!

[@RefurbishedPrototype]

Personal truth. Political truth. Objective truth. Only one is axiomatic.

[@future8273]

Truth is dependent on who you are!

[@mercedesgomez8258]

Howdy world 👏👏👏 Virtual hugs from Texas y'all ❤❤ Love you Beau

[@iwantsomecookies08]

Also known as the “gambler’s fallacy”; investing heavily into a bad bet out of fear for losing the initial investment. When applied to politics, you should also consider the media, which often is the voice in the gamblers head; a voice of panic, and doubt, which prolongs the poor decision making from a primitive, animalistic instinct of fear. To put it simply, the right-wing politics are primitive and fail very often. The right-wing media (also an underdog, most of the time; largely unpopular and unintelligent) also fails very often. But the two can sustain eachother, with money traded for influence, and lies to pay the vast lack of results produced by either. The circle goes round and round, but one day the wheel breaks, and with it the society sustaining it is left with the pieces to pick up (war, famine, disease, etc.) History is made up of this story on a loop, and progress is slow an painful because of it. We are human animals, and we have so much fear left over from our primal days.. we shed it little-by-little, and crawl forwards gradually, but we do keep crawling. But those closer to the lie, more ruled by their fears than their hopes, will be left behind. They will be the footnotes of future history books, and one day, far-off in the future, more fools will put them on a pedestal of myth and legend: Romans, Spartans, Imperialist Europeans. They become idols of the future’s fearful human animals... and slowly, the wheel begins to turn again.

[@schaughtful]

iwantsomecookies08 true, because like being a horror movie fan, fear can be addicting.

[@blacksmith67]

The two fallacies are often found together but they are not identical. The gamblers fallacy is believing that previous results will have an effect on subsequent results in affairs of pure chance. Examples: “I have been winning big so I should bet more,” or “I can’t keep on losing, the _law of averages_ will kick in at some point.”

[@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas]

@@blacksmith67 Thank you I was trying figure out the best way to say that. Yours is pretty good. I think I would high light your first bet isn't really a investment when it comes to gambling. If anyone truly see gambling as investment for the future oh boy.... While the results are the same the mindset to get there is different. The gambler fallacy mindset isn't about recovering a lost cost, it deals more with luck or chance either keep a lucky streak going or break an unlucky streak. With verbal coms you can see gambler fallacy in action sometimes when people get refuted or stumped in a debate and change topic over and over again trying to get win some where. So, they can walk way with victory in their mind. Now how the results are the same both tend to disregard new information, and will repeat the same bs that been refuted and stick to their alt facts. In more colorful words they got their head stuck up their rear and sniffing their own farts and think they are smelling roses.

[@blacksmith67]

@@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas Both of my examples were gamblers fallacy. Real gamblers will sometimes have a sunk cost mindset as in: "I can't quit now until I get my money back." (When in fact that money stopped being yours and became the house's the moment you lost it.) I cannot really see how gamblers fallacy applies to politics... "I voted for Dubya and he made a mess, then I voted for Trump. Some day I'm gonna git a good Republican president, dang it all!"

[@candacecasey5634]

I don't gamble

[@Kefoo_]

-- Excellent lesson, Beau. Thank you for your response and considerations to this country's dissonance and resolve.

[@tompattinson528]

G'day Beau

[@markballard1515]

I thought about this very same thing yesterday. Few people say, " I want to go back to work no matter the risk". Instead they delve into this fantasy that there is no risk.

[@rafetizer]

In the words of Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, "New shit has come to light, man."

[@maramike13]

I always tell people I train this: "Own up to your fuck up." Simply because if you own up to being wrong, people will be more forgiving & understanding than if you try to cover it up or keep pushing the mistake.

[@dianedenham5259]

Sounds like a bad marriage. "But, I've put in 10yrs," "but she's gonna get half my stuff," "but the kids need a father figure," "but the dog likes her".....

[@alanjbuddendeck186]

Beau, YOU are a font of wisdom. Thank you, and stay healthy!

[@garywaters8301]

So Beau you say you are from Florida and I get the feeling you're from the northwest parta the state. Watch you a lot but what is it like being a minority of rational thought.

[@bdf2718]

No, he *lives* in Florida. He's from Tennessee or somewhere like that.

[@sparkyjones560]

No Gary is right. He's from the panhandle area I think.... Destin florida... pensicola... Panama beach something like that. He talked about hurricanes in the last couple years and doing relief work so he must be up there by Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. I'm from south Florida and we know our fellow floridaman. Maybe born somewhere else and traveled around a lot on military bases, he strikes me as military child and maybe exmilitary or something, but the dude is 100% florida. Maybe spent time in in his formative years in a lot of places and military bases are pretty rural and would lend to his country nature and expose him to a lot of different views on things. And when it rains he's got a metal roof on that garage, we don't do that down south, too damn hot for something like that. Lol. He must be up there in the panhandle.

[@bdf2718]

@@sparkyjones560 Like I said, he *lives* in Florida. *Now.* He's admitted it in many videos. But he also said, in one of his videos, that he was born and raised in hillbilly country. I'm fairly sure I remember him saying Tennessee, either as the state he was born in or sharing a border with the state he was born in.

[@cowgirljane3316]

And today, one year later ... HOW TRUE YOUR WORDS ARE.

[@davepalliaser4798]

Religious people do this too, continuing to believe in their indoctrinated belief despite the reality that the supernatural does not exist. It's so frustrating.

[@gordthor5351]

This is brilliant Beau. Perfect analogy to human nature where we can all be wrong when we don't realize it's better to cut your losses and move forwards.

[@nhagan001]

I have always seen Sunk Cost Fallacy in regards to thought in these areas (there are probably more, but these are my experiences): Addiction (gambling and drugs) Microtransactions (think mobile games, trading card games, etc) Politics (I don't need to name the American party this applies to, nor the President in question) Relationships I have found that I use this mentality in the NEGATIVE most of the time.

[@mariefc8504]

I had chills listening to this. Truth.

[@Jivolt]

“I don’t know how anyone with the slightest bit of intelligence can still support Trump.” - my friend that voted for Trump

[@candacecasey5634]

I totally agree

[@gioiapharo7433]

You are so spot on .... and his supporters keep trying to pump him up

[@aprilrichards762]

I have a question: what is the name for the idea that nothing has changed in science or new things learned about history or whatever since that person graduated from school in the early 1960s.

[@katthudson9131]

stagnation? entropy?

[@brettbosley779]

I kinda want to know this too. This and one other one: the idea that scientists and/or historians know all the facts about something from the beginning but withhold info or change their stories because reasons. Seeing it a lot now as new data comes in to the health organizations and you see idiots saying, "First they say this and then they say that, you just can't trust anything they say!" And then they go give their entire Kroger coronavirus.

[@ChrisPage68]

Dumbassery.

[@lostkeysnurse]

I dont believe there is a name per se, which is how "Ok Boomer" became so popular imo.

[@aprilrichards762]

@@lostkeysnurse very true. I have relatives who think that the 50s were the best time to live and Black people had plenty of rights. So did women and LGBT+ people too. This was told to me by a white, cis-gendered, straight man.

[@creepingbert]

Well said, good sir. We need responsive, not reactive leadership. Same goes for all of us. Responsive, not reactive citizens.