Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away by Annie Duke

BATB score: 6/10 🚫

reader discretion advised this book is trying to pitch for an unpopular opinion that “while grit is a virtue, quitting is a vice” that quitting is a winner mentality - tough pitch indeed

Best for: when quitting is the better obvious choice, can we clap for quitters?

Best to: there are marathon runners who finished the race despite a broken leg because quitting is not an option

Best as: applause for the Mount Everest climbers who turned back and didn’t make it to the top as they knew when to quit and didn’t die

BATB lingering thought: as quitters do not make the headlines who can quitting be cool

Best quotes: “The idea of quitting is such a bitter pill to swallow that we have to take it with a spoonful of sugar. Or, in the case, a spoonful of euphemism, the most famous of which is “pivot”.”

“When your identity is what you do, then what you do becomes hard to abandon, because it means quitting who you are.”

“Sometimes, being forced to quit gets you to see options that have been right under your nose all along in a new light.”

“Grit is good for getting you to stick to hard things that are worthwhile, but grit also gets you to stick to hard things that are no longer worthwhile.”

“We don’t see ourselves as being in the gains, even though we’ve gone farther than where we started, because we’re not measuring ourselves by how far we are past the starting line. We’re measuring ourselves by whether we’re short of the finish line.”