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#329: Annie Duke – Why You Should Consider Quitting

The Danny Miranda Podcast

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What Is a Challenge?

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"

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Speaker 1
Annie,
Speaker 2
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. Does a challenge come
Speaker 1
to mind? Yes. The challenge is the next time that somebody says to you, they're thinking about quitting or you're thinking about quitting, say, wow, that's amazing. Super heroic. I love that.
Speaker 2
Because you,
Speaker 1
I'm challenging everybody to start thinking about quitting as an active heroism because we think about grit as the heroic act. But here's what I want you to imagine, Danny. Imagine you're 300 feet from the summit of Everest and there's a bunch of people still going up that mountain, but you see the snowstorm rolling in. So you're going to try to make a good decision here and turn around, but you know everybody else is going to go up and you're worried about going home and having people tell you what is wrong with you. Like you spent all that money. Why would you turn around at that point? You're such a wuss, right? And maybe other people are going to make it to the summit and think about how terrifying that is. Think about how terrifying it is for anybody who's in a relationship to walk away when they don't know what the next relationship is going to be. You're wandering into the unknown, the abyss of ambiguity. That's really hard. If you quit your job, it's the same thing. If you're, if you're a startup founder and you have to shut your, your startup down, you have to worry about, well, what are people going to think of me? What, what is going to be my next thing? Those are all really hard things to do. So I know that we think about grit as heroism, but you know what, continuing up the mountain? That you know everybody's going to pat you on the back for. It's the turning around that's actually really hard. And I think that we have to say to people when, you know, they shut their, they shut something down or they walk away from a job or they walk away from a relationship. You know what, that was really heroic. That's what I want people. That's, that's the challenge that I would give to people. I
Speaker 2
love that so much. Thank you so much for everything you do. Quit by any Duke available everywhere as well as thinking in bets and how to decide both tremendous books. Thank you so much for your work. And we'll have all your social links down below.
Speaker 1
Thank you.

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