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“Don’t be a quitter!” “Quitters never win, and winners never quit<\/span>!”<\/div>\n
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These maxims encapsulate our usual attitude towards quitting<\/span>, which is to see it as a bad thing, a weakness, a character defect. We celebrate those who stick with things, who have grit.<\/div>\n
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But my guest would say that quit<\/span> and grit are just two sides of the<\/span> same coin, and that quitting<\/span> is a valuable skill to learn and get good at. Her name is Annie Duke, and she’s a former professional poker player, a speaker, a consultant, and an author. In her latest book, Quit<\/span>: The<\/span> Power of Knowing When to Walk Away<\/a><\/i>, she seeks to rehabilitate quitting<\/span> by showing how \u2014 whether it’s in the<\/span> context of ending a relationship, leaving a job, or climbing a mountain \u2014 it has essential benefits. We discuss those benefits in today’s show, as well as how to know when to quit<\/span>. We unpack how whether you should stick with something comes down to an equation of its positive “expected value,” how setting goals too rigidly can get in the<\/span> way of our being able to assess that value, and the<\/span> cognitive biases that keep you from quitting<\/span> when you should. We end our conversation with two strategies for overcoming these biases, including establishing “kill criteria” to give<\/span> yourself a timetable for how long to go after an aim.<\/p>\n

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“Don’t be a quitter!” “Quitters never win, and winners never quit!”   These maxims encapsulate our usual attitude towards quitting, which is to see it as a bad thing, a weakness, a character defect. We celebrate those who stick with things, who have grit. 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