INTERVIEW with Annie Duke on "QUIT: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away"

Issue 55: Interviewing Annie Duke about her newly released book!

This week, we are featuring an interview with Annie Duke, who released her fabulous new book, QUIT: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away a few weeks ago. We already had a chance to read the book and it is loaded with fascinating stories and useful insights. Annie makes the important point that we underestimate the value of quitting and this can have some catastrophic consequences. She also points out that quitting something connected to our core identity is especially challenging and can leave people clinging to everything from a failing business to a debunked conspiracy theory.

Annie Duke is an author, professional poker player, and Psychology PhD student. Most people know her as the only woman to have won the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions (at one point she had won more money in poker than any woman in history). But we like to think she got her decision-making chips from her training in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania (where she recently return…