# Plan Continuation Bias

*Tom Geraghty · Safety & Human Error, Voice & Silence*

Explains plan continuation bias — the cognitive and emotional pull to stick with a plan even when conditions have changed. Uses a first-person story of trying to deliver a workshop while ill to show how sunk costs, social pressure, and normalised pushing-through create the effect.

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