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Humans tend to value perseverance, but Keller shows here how quitting is sometimes the better strategy, first showing examples from the animal world, then in humans. As someone who left my career 4.5 years ago (with zero regrets), I frankly found this quite validating.
keithmalek In addressing how bad of an idea the "Never quit" ethos is, I once read something in which someone asked, "Should you never quit that job you had in high school where you flipped burgers? If you're a woman who is in a violent relationship, should you not quit that relationship?" Also, the Freakonomics guys have shown that the majority of successful people quit far more often than the average population. 9mo
Hooked_on_books @keithmalek Yes exactly! Plus she starts by giving examples of animals trying to grab tricky morsels of food. If they didn‘t quit, they would die! Perseverance is valuable in certain circumstances, but I wish we weren‘t so ruled by it. 9mo