Annie Duke
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Like, they're always like, mommy, why aren't you paying attention to me?
I'm totally miserable.
Now you can imagine at that point, I was like, hold on a second.
Like, what's going on?
Like, why aren't you quitting?
And she said to me the thing that your friends say, what if I take the new job and I hate that?
Ah, oh, it's this loss aversion problem, right?
So I said to her, okay, again, thinking about playing the odds, I said, all right, I want you to imagine that you stay in the job that you're in.
It's a year from now.
What are the chances you're happy?
And very quickly, she said, 0%.
I said, why?
She goes, well, I've been unhappy for a really long time.
I don't think at this point anything's going to change.
I said, oh, okay, 0%.
So let's imagine you take the new job.
I understand it might not work out, but it's a year from now.
What do you think the chances are that you're happy in that role?
She said, well, I don't know.
Like I'm not in it yet, but I would say 50-50.