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I noticed this, when earlier, I was going to just get a quick snack, but didn't find one, but was much more willing to put in some extra time to find one, going deeper in the fridge, heating up food, etc - than I would be for working on the course, which has much much bigger potential reward - but also has some bit of getting closer to a bit of risk.
But with the spending more time on getting a snack, the risk is in the loss of the counterfactual - which I'm not really modelling much.