Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
there’s a benefit to making decisions quickly; speed can compensate, somewhat, for misdirection. But there’s being decisive, and then there’s being allergic to course correction. People often mistake this for being principled … it’s not. Your decisions are a guide and an action plan, not a suicide pact.
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success
Once you clear these five hurdles, however, there is more you can do to improve your probability of success at scale. You can design the right incentives, use marginal thinking to make the most of your resources, and stay lean and effective as you grow. You can make decisions based on the opportunity cost of your time, discover your comparative adv... See more
John List • The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Gr…
In her book Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, Annie Duke says, "When your identity is what you do, then what you do becomes hard to abandon, because it means quitting who you are."
Knowing when to walk away from relationships, careers, and creative endeavors that are going nowhere prevents unnecessary suffering.
Knowing when to walk away from relationships, careers, and creative endeavors that are going nowhere prevents unnecessary suffering.
Unmistakable Creative • 46 Reflections on a Life Half Over
A very small subset of your decisions are one-way doors. Non-reversible portals into bad realities. These ones should take you more time. They require more information.