Learning How to Quit Is So Important

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Sally Kohn: I've spent my whole life dealing with how do you make decisions under uncertainty. She says the world is stochastic; there's just the influence of luck on the way that things turn out. We have to make decisions when we don't have all the facts, she says. But lucky for us, we have the option after we find that new information out to change our minds and to do something different.,Kohn writes. "I think everybody should go buy grit"

Annie Duke is a former professional poker player, decision making expert, best-selling author, and fortunately, a repeat guest on the show. Our first conversation about Annie’s background and best-seller Thinking in Bets is replayed on the feed. Her latest masterpiece releases tomorrow. It’s called Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, and I’m going on record predicting it will be a best-seller in short order. Our conversation covers Annie’s compulsion to write another book, our instinct for grit, the case for quitting, the emotional and cognitive biases that stand in our way, and some techniques to improve our ability to quit effectively. Along the way, Annie shares some terrific stories from the book about Everest, Sears, the NBA draft, and the California bullet train.

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