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When to quit




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  • Annie Duke views decision-making as a teachable skill that many people never learn how to do systematically.


  • We tend to judge decisions by the outcome, but Duke argues that what really matters is the quality of thinking behind them.


  • Duke’s framework for deciding when to quit something involves setting a clear deadline, envisioning how things could go right or wrong, and forecasting the probability of success.


 
 

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One  objective:
facilitating  those,
who are so motivated,
to enjoy the benefits of becoming  humble polymaths.   

“The universe
is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”


—Eden Phillpotts

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“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”

―Vincent Van Gogh

" The unexamined life is not worth living."  

Attributed to Socrates​

“Who knows whether in a couple of centuries

there may not exist universities for restoring the old ignorance?”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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