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Annie Duke: Quitting Is Totally Underrated

The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

CHAPTER

The Importance of Prioritizing Challenges

This chapter discusses the concept of focusing on the most important and challenging aspects of a project before diving into smaller details, using the analogy of a monkey juggling flaming torches and building a pedestal for the act. It explores the consequences of not prioritizing the most challenging aspects through examples like the California bullet train project.

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