ENCORE How To Know When to Quit Your Job
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Victor's job—at its core—is to change the world. But he feels like he's plateaued within his large humanitarian and development organization, and is now on the verge of jumping ship. On this episode of How To!, Annie Duke, author of Quit: The Power Of Knowing When to Walk Away, helps Victor decide if he should recommit to his current job or move on to something else. She explains the cognitive biases that prevent us from quitting and reveals why most of us quit things far too late.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, how to listeners. It's Charles Duhigg, your favorite original host of how to. |
| 0:05.4 | And as we're getting the show ready for 2026, we thought we would play one of my favorite episodes, a rerun from when Amanda Ripley was host. |
| 0:13.7 | It's with Annie Duke, the famous poker player, and it's how to quit like a champ, how to quit your job, how to quit things that are bad for your life. |
| 0:22.2 | So let me hand things over to Amanda and Annie and take it away. |
| 0:26.2 | There's the external judgment we fear and also the internal judgment we fear about quitting, right? |
| 0:31.6 | And it reminds me of Liz Trust recently saying, I'm a fighter, not a quitter, like a day before she resigned, right? |
| 0:39.2 | Exactly. |
| 0:40.3 | So I'm a fighter and a quitter. |
| 0:42.2 | That's how I view myself. |
| 0:43.8 | Oh, I like that. |
| 0:44.8 | She got a T-shirt made. |
| 0:45.9 | I would buy that T-shirt. |
| 0:47.0 | Yeah, I'm both. |
| 0:49.4 | Welcome to how to. |
| 0:51.2 | I'm Amanda Ripley. |
| 0:53.5 | Today we've got a classic conundrum for you. How do you know when to |
| 0:57.4 | quit something and when to just power through? We get a lot of rhetoric in our culture about |
| 1:04.5 | gritty people who never quit, the entrepreneurs, the actors, the athletes, the ones that refuse to give up, and then finally |
| 1:13.3 | emerged triumphant on the medal stand. You might remember legendary gymnast, Kerry Strugg, who |
| 1:19.7 | tore two ligaments and then continued on vaulting to Olympic victory. |
| 1:24.4 | She heard herself on the first vault. Probably the last thing she should have done was false again, but she did, and now she |
| 1:31.4 | isn't a lot of pain. |
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