How To!: Quit: The Power Of Knowing When to Walk Away

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🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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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. If you liked this episode, check out: “How To Uproot Your Life.” Do you have a question without an answer? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on How To!. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus to help support our work. Want a behind-the-scenes look at how we create the show? Check out Slate's Pocket Collections for research and reading lists, as well as additional insights into how we think about the stories behind the episodes. Thanks Avast.com! Learn more about Avast One at Avast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's the external judgment we fear and also the internal judgment we fear about quitting, right?
0:06.6	And it reminds me of Liz Trust recently saying, I'm a fighter, not a quitter, like a day before she resigned, right?
0:14.2	Exactly.
0:15.2	I'm a fighter and a quitter.
0:17.2	That's how I view myself.
0:18.8	Oh, I like that.
0:19.8	You should get a T-shirt made.
0:21.7	I would buy that T-shirt. Oh, I like that. You should get a t-shirt made. I would buy that t-shirt.
0:22.8	Yeah, I'm both.
0:27.0	Welcome to how-to. I'm Amanda Ripley.
0:33.1	Today we've got a classic conundrum for you. How do you know when to quit something?
0:35.6	And when to just power through.
0:41.3	We get a lot of rhetoric in our culture about gritty people who never quit, the entrepreneurs, the actors, the athletes, the ones that refuse to give up,
0:46.3	and then finally emerge triumphant on the medal stand.
0:51.3	You might remember legendary gymnast, Carrie Strugg, who tore two ligaments and then
0:56.5	continued on vaulting to Olympic victory. She hurt herself on the first vault. Probably the last
1:02.9	thing she should have done was false again, but she did, and now she is in a lot of pain.
1:07.4	A 9-7-1-2, she has done it.
1:11.8	Carrie Strong has won the gold medal for the United States team.
1:15.5	But what about when your entire country's hopes and dreams are not riding on your shoulders?
1:20.6	What if you're just, you know, a regular guy running a marathon?
1:23.3	Like Stephen Quayle, who accidentally stepped on a loose water bottle, eight miles into the London
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