Danny Cevallos: I like to end these podcasts with challenges, a challenge points to the place in your heart. You believe you can challenge someone to take something that they've learned or something we haven't covered yet to do something in their actual life to improve it? He says he wants people to start thinking about quitting as an active heroism because we think about grit as the heroic act. "The next time that somebody says to you, they're thinking about quitting ... wow, that's amazing. Super heroic"
Annie Duke is a former poker player and author. She holds a World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet from 2004 and at one point won more money in WSOP history than any other female. She is still in the top four as of September 2021, despite being retired from poker, last cashing at a tournament 2010.
She is the author of three phenomenal books Thinking In Bets, How To Decide, and Quit.
In this conversation, we spoke about how Annie got into poker, how to decide whether to quit a job or relationship, and what she learned from Erik Seidel.