Why you should give up (to get ahead)
Is your identity preventing you from making a necessary change? The golden child, the one who spent decades climbing the corporate ladder, often stays miserable because they can't separate who they are from what they do. Annie Duke reminds us that even the toughest career pivots are surprisingly reversible, and encourages us to imagine what we'd do with those reclaimed 60 hours each week if we finally walked away. [Episode 94]
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TIME STAMPS
00:00 The Double-Edged Sword of Grit
01:14 Three Archetypes: Navigating Career Decisions
06:01 Loss Aversion and Its Impact on Decisions
13:39 Setting Deadlines for Rational Decisions
21:35 Investment Decisions: Avoiding Thesis Creep
26:19 The Intuition of Walking Away
28:44 The Problem with Quitting
32:07 Kill Criteria and Precommitment
37:44 Dealing with Sunk Cost Fallacy
43:11 Opportunity Cost and Reversibility