Annie Duke

So that's clearly true.

So how could it possibly be a failure to quit something that's not worthwhile, right?

Like that has to be a good thing.

But everybody thinks it's a bad thing.

And I just was like, I just got to rehabilitate this word because it's such an incredibly important skill when you're living in a world where there's luck.

Because sometimes you make a great decision, the world doesn't go your way.

Should you stick to it?

No.

So like when you're making decisions where luck can influence the outcome,

And you know, like you're not omniscient, right?

You know so little in comparison to all there is to be known in the whole universe.

That what that means is that when we start things, kind of definitionally speaking, like after we start them, we're going to learn new things.

And sometimes those new things are going to make us say, ah, I wish I had known that when I made the decision in the first place.

I wish I knew then what I know now because I would have done something else.

And under those circumstances, then you should do something else.

You should quit, right?

But we over-index on grit and we don't quit because we think that we failed if we do.

So that's why I was just like so passionate about this idea that people, like mostly you should be quitting.

You should actually be sticking to very few things.

And I wanted people to start quitting more and feeling better about it and feeling like it was a success to do that.