Why Knowing When to Quit May Be Your Best Decision

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Weekly Wisdom - How can you tell it’s the right time to quit?

“Of all strategies, knowing when to quit may be the best.” — Chinese Proverb.

All of the well-intentioned popular advice like "keep going" and Vince Lombardi's famous adage, "Winners never quit, and quitters never win," are meant to inspire and challenge us to put forth our best effort and endure until we succeed. They can encourage us to work hard and overcome all obstacles to achieve seemingly unattainable goals. However, not every situation we encounter calls for its use.

Let's take the startup industry as an example, where the founders get financially and emotionally entwined with the company they establish. It determines the identity of many people. The basic fact is that after a few years of slogging it out, most startups fail. Startups are difficult, and 99 percent of them never make $1 million in revenue yearly. Nobody wants to be the person who gives up, yet there are occasions when it leads to the best overall result. Perhaps the founders have lost interest in the project, the company isn't expanding, or it's having an adverse effect on their relationships and health.

But that raises the question of how you can choose when it is appropriate to change directions or persevere.

Similar to this startup example, it's typical for us to be going in the wrong direction in many aspects of our lives while yet trying to make the situation work. Perhaps you feel trapped in your job because it pays well and you like your lifestyle, or you are in a poor relationship. When this happens, you might be tempted to keep going hoping things will improve. But if you dig deep enough, you find that sometimes you must abandon your current course to devote all your time and effort to charting a different and better course.

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How Great Catalysts Remove The Barriers To Change

Dr. Jonah Berger, a bestselling author and University of Pennsylvania Wharton School marketing professor, shares how great catalysts remove the barriers to change. We discuss his latest book,?The Catalyst.

Great catalysts don't exert more pressure. They recognize these obstacles and take steps to remove them. They determine the cause of that person's resistance to change. They aid in realizing that, no matter what they do or what size organization they work for, whether for-profit or nonprofit, they can pick the outcome they desire. These obstacles continually present themselves. And the better we understand them, the more we can influence people's opinions and motivate them to take action.

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• What we can learn in the aftermath of the Tide Pods Challenge
• How do the Catalysts know how to understand before they try to influence

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Dr. Cynthia Li received her medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. She’s practiced as an internist in many settings, including Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco General Hospital, and St. Anthony Medical Clinic serving the homeless. She currently has a private practice in Berkeley, CA, and recently published her first book, Brave New Medicine: A Doctor’s Unconventional Path to Healing Her Autoimmune Illness.

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