When to Quit (rebroadcast)

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The first thing we've got to understand is that when we ask, when should I quit? We're also asking, when should I persevere? And they often serve as the same answer - I should quit when it doesn't make sense to keep going. I keep going when it doesn't make sense to quit. Unfortunately is really easy to get those messages mixed up and with ADHD we've all got a trail of unfinished projects and ideas that are weighing us down every time we need to make this decision again.

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This Episode's Top Tips

We've got to give up the notion that winners never quit. Persistence doesn't guarantee success - we can persist at the wrong things forever and never make progress.
There are two curves we've got to look for when starting something new - the dip and the cul-de-sac. A cul-de-sac is a dead end. The dip is the point where things start to get hard - we've got to stop quitting things when they get hard and embrace the dip.
We'll often stick out things we should quit. There are a lot of reasons that we might stick something out like the sunk cost fallacy or the planning fallacy. Regardless of why we're sticking around, once we realize that we're in a dead-end we've got to accept that we need to quit and try something new.

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0:32.7	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:38.9	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:42.4	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:49.2	Hey, team, I'm taking this week off, but I didn't want to leave you without your weekly helping of ADHD goodness.
0:55.0	So I looked into the archives to find an episode that would fit in with our series and goal setting.
1:00.0	It may seem like goal setting and quitting don't go hand in hand, but undoubtedly we're going to
1:04.3	have some goals that we're just going to want to quit at. And when we ask this question of
1:08.9	when should I quit, we're also asking, when should I go on?
1:13.0	There are plenty of reasons that we should give up any particular endeavor.
1:16.9	Sometimes it doesn't make sense to keep going on.
1:19.3	Sometimes we don't have the resources to make it happen.
1:22.0	Sometimes we just don't care about the goal anymore.
1:25.3	Typically, the advice we get on goals is that we should always try and
1:28.8	persevere through any difficulty, but that actually tends to be some real crap advice. Sometimes
1:34.8	the right answer is that we should stop going, but knowing when to stop isn't easy. In today's
1:40.9	episode, we're going to be exploring both the questions of when we should keep
1:45.0	going and then when should we throw in the towel. We'll also be looking at why we keep going
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