Annie Duke is familiar to me as the poker-play turned academic and author of a
In this You Are Not So Smart podcast interview (no 244) she talks about quitting (of course, since that’s the name of her new book).
There’s many interesting ideas and this one I loved, around 33 minutes in:
It’s important to “stack” goals
Annie Duke, Quit
This means your goal is not to complete the marathon, your goal is to continue completing marathons: she talks about someone who ignored pain to the point of breaking her leg to compmlete a marathon. That person can no longer do marathons. If this job, this assignment, is killing you, then you need to stop and assess whether it’s doing long-term damage so you can stay in the game for the next hand. Strangely enough I encountered this one in Lionel Shriver’s (fiction) book The Motion of the Body Through Space.
