Quitting Is Good

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Dr. Kirk talks with Coonoor Behal about her book about quitting.

You can find the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Quit-Life-Affirming-Joy-Giving-Up-ebook/dp/B093QN3GXJ/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8#customerReviews

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0:00.0	Hey, deserve and listeners, I get emails, various emails from agents asking to have different
0:06.8	authors on the podcast to talk about their books. And I usually will turn them down, but I got an
0:12.2	interesting one the other day that caught my eye. It was a book about quitting. And I love this idea
0:19.2	of elevating the act of quitting because I love to quit things that I don't like. I mean,
0:26.0	you only live life once. And I say, if you don't like something, or if you have a better
0:32.8	opportunity, then quitting is one of the best things you can ever do in your life. I mean, some of
0:37.8	the my most favorite moments of life was when I quit. And maybe we'll get into that. So I thought
0:43.3	I would have the author on the show to talk about her book. Please introduce yourself to podcast
0:49.6	Hi, my name is Konor Bahal. And I'm the author of I Quit, the life affirming joy of giving up.
0:57.2	I quit the life affirming joy of giving up. Tell us more about this idea. Yeah. Well, first of all,
1:04.5	thank you so much for making an exception. I definitely empathize to probably how irritating it is
1:09.9	that people are just like throwing their book at you and saying, have me on, have me on. So
1:14.8	thank you for making the exception. Well, for a for a fellow Seattle, I can absolutely make an
1:20.0	exception. Yeah, I know, especially people for that. Yeah, I am based in Seattle. Yeah, so the book
1:26.4	got where to begin. I'm sure we'll get deeper into it. But the the book is really the manifestation
1:33.9	of a change in myself that I experienced from about my mid 20s when I quit the first big job I had.
1:43.0	And I quit after thinking like, oh, I got my first full-time job at graduate school. This is
1:49.9	what my whole career is going to be. This is what I want to do. And then three months in, I got
1:55.6	sexually harassed. And that really upended everything I knew about that field. And it really
2:03.9	hopefully clarified for me what my values were and what I was willing to put up with and what
2:09.6	I wasn't willing to put up with. And so I ultimately quit that job. As most happy quitters will tell
2:15.3	you, their only regret is waiting too long to quit. And I definitely waited too long and tried
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