Michael Ashford

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523 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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Speaking With Confidence · How Asking Questions Builds True Communication Confidence · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

This is I don't think this is for me.

I also had done an internship the summer after my sophomore or my freshman year.

and uh was miserable again, just could not see myself doing civil engineering for the rest of my life.

And I told them that.

And my my parents were wonderfully supportive.

They said, Hey, listen, like

If this is not for you and this is not the direction you're gonna go and you don't see yourself doing this for the rest of your life, don't do it.

Like the they were completely supportive of that change and and really gave me the time and space to figure that out.

I I credit them for just yeah, taking that step back and saying, Yeah, of course, do what you want to do.

This is your life.

Yeah, believing that believing that that's aligned with what you want.

You also touched very briefly there on something that was really uh personal to me or what I experienced isn't it's that that idea of the sunk cost fallacy.

Well, I had already invested so much time and energy and effort and and literal money into this that I better keep going.

And the the studies show the the fallacy is real.

We are much better served when we've come to that point where we have that realization, this is no longer serving me.

Cut it off and move on.

Go pivot, do something different.

Don't continue to sink cost into this thing that you know is ultimately fruitless.

Listen, that happens in the business world all the time.

Well, we've already spent a year developing this product.

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