Ivonne

“Quit and grit are two sides of the exact same decision. Decision-making in the real world requires action without complete information. Quitting is the tool that allows us to react to new information that is revealed after we make a decision.”
― Annie Duke, Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

“If you feel like you’ve got a close call between quitting and persevering, it’s likely that quitting is the better choice.”
― Annie Duke, Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

“And this feeling that the result of the decision tells you something significant about the quality of the decision process is so powerful that even when the description of the decision is identical (you quit your job and take a new position), your view of that decision changes as the quality of the result changes.”
― Annie Duke, How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

“Staw’s central insight about escalation of commitment is that the phenomenon is not confined to matters like the Vietnam War, a complex geopolitical conflict with national pride wrapped up in it. His laboratory and field experiments show that whether it is on the level of an individual, an organization, or a governmental entity, when we’re getting bad news, when we are getting strong signals that we’re losing—signals that others plainly see—we don’t merely refuse to quit. We will double and triple down, making additional decisions to commit more time and money (and other resources) toward the losing cause, and we will strengthen our belief that we are on the right path.”
― Annie Duke, Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away