C — Converged too early

You picked a favorite before your option set had enough real variety, so your comparison was rigged from the start.

Three weekends into house hunting, you toured a place with a big maple in the yard and fell hard. Since then, every other listing exists only to lose to it. You are now assembling reasons the maple house is right rather than searching, and your agent's other suggestions get thirty-second dismissals.

Converged too early describes this failure: a favorite was selected before the option set had enough structural diversity, so the comparison was rigged from the start. The cue is noticing that your "evaluation" always ends at the same answer and that alternatives get generated only to be beaten. To repair it, deliberately reopen the search before recommitting: list options that differ in structure, not just address, such as a smaller house plus renovation budget, a different town with a shorter commute, or renting one more year while prices move. Then compare the favorite against genuinely different rivals on the few criteria that decide it. What changes is one of two good outcomes: the favorite wins a fair fight and you commit with confidence, or a better path surfaces that infatuation had hidden. Do not run this after a sound comparison already happened; reopening a well-made choice is just doubt wearing a method's clothes.