When To Quit

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 19 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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0:33.1	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network. I'm your host,
0:39.2	William Kerb, and I have ADHD. On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices
0:45.2	to help you work with your ADHD brain. The first thing we've got to understand is that when we ask,
0:51.4	when should I quit? We're also asking, when should I persevere?
0:55.0	And often they serve the same answer. I should quit when it doesn't make sense to keep going.
1:00.0	And I should keep going when it doesn't make sense to quit.
1:03.1	Unfortunately, it's really easy to get those messages mixed up, and with ADHD, we've got a trail of
1:08.3	unfinished projects and ideas that are waiting us down every time
1:11.1	we need to make that decision again. Today, we're going to be exploring this idea of when to quit.
1:16.2	We'll be looking at how culturally we have this idea ingrained in us that we should never quit,
1:20.6	and how that's just bad advice. We'll be looking at some of the metrics we can use to decide
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