Life Through the Lens of Opportunity Costs

Anna Brown
2 min readFeb 7, 2021

This piece of wisdom/advice is not new. It’s been said many times, many ways, just like ‘Merry Christmas’ — for good reason.

Opportunity Cost: the forgone benefit that would have been derived by an option not chosen

Every single cent or minute spent on something is a cent or minute actively not spent elsewhere. Every choice is a choice to forgo every other option.

In the past few years — ‘NO’ has been hyped as an incredibly important and powerful…

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Anna Brown

Lover of behavioral science and laughing. Person with OCD and anxiety. Occasional romance muser