#180: The Power of Quitting and Letting Go

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

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🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Welcome to The Big Idea of the Week!

On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host, Dhru Purohit talks about the power of quitting and letting go.

When’s the right time to let go of something? A relationship, a project, an investment?

Seasoned investors have this great question for determining whether or not they should hold onto an investment. The question goes a little something like this: “If I wasn’t already invested in this business, would I invest in it today, knowing what I know?” Feel free to replace business with relationship, project, or friendship.

The beauty of this question is that it cuts through the rationalization tactics that our mind uses to deal with our fear of loss. Sometimes we’re so scared of losing something, or admitting that it isn’t working, that it’s easier to pretend that it isn’t an issue than it is to deal with it.

The challenge with pretending is that it just prolongs the inevitable pain and, more importantly, makes it harder to genuinely turn things around.

When’s the right time to let go? Notice if the main reason you are holding onto something is primarily because you’re afraid of losing it, that may be a good sign.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Drew. First of all, I'm wishing you a happy holidays. Nothing but love,
0:05.7	peace, prosperity, and most importantly wellness. Secondly, today's big idea of the week episode
0:13.0	is a rerun from earlier in the year. If you aren't familiar with these episodes, you probably
0:18.2	haven't heard this one so stick around for the episode. Let's jump right into it.
0:25.6	Hi guys, this is Drew Brode here, Broken Brain Podcast. Today's big idea Tuesday,
0:29.6	where I come to you with a short thought, idea, distinction that's radically changed my life
0:35.1	for the better. And today, I have a short little episode that I'm bringing to you on the power
0:40.2	of quitting and the power of letting go. I truly believe that learning how to quit,
0:45.6	artfully and tastefully is one of the most underrated skill sets when it comes to making progress in
0:52.2	every aspect of your life, relationship, business, career, financial, spiritual, all above.
0:59.9	When we learn how to quit, we're stepping into the power of asking ourselves what actually matters
1:06.9	and what doesn't. Now let me explain that, but before I do, let's realize what society teaches us
1:13.6	about quitting. We've all heard this phrase, quitters never win and winners never quit.
1:18.7	Now, the thing is, is that school society completely indoctrinates kids from a young age
1:26.0	of saying that the goal is to finish. If you set out to do a task, you should finish it.
1:31.3	That's a very simplistic view of life. And I don't know about you, but that simplistic view
1:35.6	has never matched my reality. And if you read the autobiographies or the biographies of individuals
1:40.7	that you look up to, you'll probably see that the pivotal moments in their life happened when they
1:45.8	were willing to quit something that wasn't working, even if sometimes that thing was successful,
1:50.9	but it was no longer something that they actually wanted. My dear friend Alex Minion, who wrote the book
1:58.0	The Third Door, who was on the Broken Brain podcast, featured so many of these stories in his book,
2:05.2	The Third Door, and we talked about a lot of those stories in our podcast, so you can check that out
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