Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

mind-and-cognition

• Poker was a real-life, high-stakes application of studying learning and cognition — figuring out how to overcome the very same biases.

  Q2-004

• My body is screaming at me to STOP and it's time for me to listen — Vonn disclosing injuries she had never previously revealed.

  Q2-007

ambition-and-status

• Holmes cried after the match; Stallone described the last round as 'like watching an autopsy on a man who's still alive.' Yet Ali still wouldn't give up.

  Q2-010

• I was worried my fellow ER doctors would think I was a wimp, a sellout who couldn't hack it.

  Q2-008

self-and-identity

• After getting over the initial resentment of having her passion — her identity — literally torn away, she found linguistics 'lit up my brain.'

  Q2-006

• Thinking of poker as some kind of opportunity was so silly that I actually joked about it — the unexplored territory of any non-academic career.

  Q2-009