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The Futur with Chris Do

231 - Knowing when to quit (Part 2)

The Futur with Chris Do

The Futur

Arts, Education, Marketing, Design, Business, Self-improvement

4.9998 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In Part Two of our discussion on when to quit and when to push through, we hear stories from listeners about perseverance and strategic quitting. Joining us again are Nidhi Tewari and Stefan Bucher, who both remind us that joy is an important factor in deciding whether to stay the course or not. If there’s one thing you take away from this conversation, it’s that sacrificing your personal well-being for professional success rarely works out in the long run. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's the famous quitter for you. I don't know if you know this from the book The Dip.

0:04.4

Michael Crichton graduated Harvard Medical School. Then he decided after having gone through the

0:11.2

dip to get into Harvard and to have graduated, he decided he didn't like the idea of being a doctor.

0:18.0

He was not interested in medical career.

0:21.0

He gave up what would have been a very lucrative career to do

0:25.8

something totally unproven which was to become an author. The Michael Crichton obviously worked out and we hear about him right?

0:58.6

You're like look at that the man had vision. And then what if he'd written a,

1:05.7

I don't know if you're a Simpsons fan,

1:07.0

but what if he'd written Billy and the colonosaurus?

1:10.0

He'd written a terrible book, and then another terrible book and would have been a really good

1:16.8

surgeon and then if you go Michael how do you feel are you happy and he goes like you know what

1:22.4

still love it living in a little shack,

1:24.8

writing these terrible, terrible, or these books that people tell me are terrible,

1:29.4

I am enjoying my life. Then I would say that that's also a success. But also, hats off to Michael

1:37.4

Creighton that takes a firm constitution, I would say. You know, even if he could have been successful as a doctor, I believe

1:46.9

this very much in my heart. Don't get good at something you are not passionate about.

1:52.0

And I think it's very difficult to be world-class, best in the world

1:58.0

at something you're truly not passionate about. Because I find that people are

2:02.1

passionate about something, they have a degree of focus and joy of doing the things that most people would find to be super painful.

2:10.0

Michael Phelps, one of the most awarded Olympians, maybe the most awarded Olympian of all time,

2:15.0

that man swam in a pool for a gazillion hours every single day.

2:22.0

Right, he's practically part fish, and he just kept doing it over and over again.

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