Annie Duke

That's a good quality to have, sticking to things.

And I just looked at that and I said, well, that's completely absurd, right?

And the reason why it's completely absurd is because if something isn't worthwhile, it's not a good thing to stick to it.

Now, that wouldn't be a problem if our bias was to stop doing things.

If our bias was as soon as something got hard, we were going to stop doing it.

Then, okay, maybe it's not a big deal because we're actually quitting too much, right?

But it's not true for adults.

For a little kid, like for a six-year-old, it's true, right?

Like you got to encourage a six-year-old to stick to things even when they have a bad day on the soccer pitch, right?

But...

Someone 25 years or older, the science is really, really clear that we stick to things too much, actually, that we're naturally way too gritty and that we don't quit enough.

And you can see that in the way that people talk about quitting, right?

Just as you just said, it's just negative, right?

It's like quitting is for losers, man.

It's like if you quit something, you failed, right?

You know, quitters never win, winners never quit, right?

Like, and I, you know, I just looked at that and I was like, everybody thinks that quitting is failing, that it's such a bad thing.

But first of all, it's not failing if the thing you're doing isn't worthwhile, right?

Because then you get to stop doing something that's not worthwhile and you get to go and do something else that is worthwhile, right?

Like, so that's a double win, right?