The secret too high voltage scaling is understanding when to quit. The general lesson there is that people don't quit soon enough. So your experience suggests that one thing you can do if you're thinking about quitting, or maybe questioning your longevity and something? We need to do more comparison shopping if we want to be serious about changing the world.
In a new book called The Voltage Effect, the economist John List — who has already revolutionized how his profession does research — is trying to start a scaling revolution. In this installment of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, List teaches us how to avoid false positives, how to know whether a given success is due to the chef or the ingredients, and how to practice “optimal quitting.”