Quit by Annie Duke

Quit by Annie Duke

From the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting to achieve greater success

Business leaders, with millions of dollars down the drain, struggle to abandon a new app or product that just isn't working. Governments, caught in a hopeless conflict, believe that the next tactic will finally be the one that wins the war. And in our own lives, we persist in relationships or careers that no longer serve us. Why? According to Annie Duke, in the face of tough decisions, we're terrible quitters. And that is significantly holding us back.

In Quit, Duke teaches you how to get good at quitting. Drawing on stories from elite athletes like Mount Everest climbers, founders of leading companies like Stewart Butterfield, the CEO of Slack, and top entertainers like Dave Chappelle, Duke explains why quitting is integral to success, as well as strategies for determining when to hold em, and when to fold em, that will save you time, energy, and money. You'll learn:

• How the paradox of quitting influences decision making: If you quit on time, you will feel you quit early
• What forces work against good quitting behavior, such as escalation commitment, desire for certainty, and status quo bias
• How to think in expected value in order to make better decisions, as well as other best practices, such as increasing flexibility in goal-setting, establishing "quitting contracts," anticipating optionality, and conducting premortems and backcasts
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  Whether you're facing a make-or-break business decision or life-altering personal choice, mastering the skill of quitting will help you make the best next move.

Annie Duke earned a gold bracelet in the World Series of Poker, the $2 million top prize in the WSOP's Tournament of Champions, and the $500,000 winner's reward at the NBC Heads-Up Championship in 2010. She has testified as an expert witness before the United States Supreme Court as an industry advocate and proponent of online poker. The Judiciary and Financial Services committees of the House of Representatives. Her involvement on NBC's Celebrity Apprentice in 2009, where she finished second to Joan Rivers, helped her attain international fame. Annie Duke: How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker and Resolve to Play Excellent Poker are her other works.

Annie Duke's website is www.AnnieDuke.com, and you can follow her on Twitter @AnnieDuke. Vanessa Rousso, one of poker's most well-known female players, has won more than $3 million in tournaments, including more than $1 million at the PokerStars EPT's 25,000 buy-in High Roller event in Monte Carlo and more than $700,000 at the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker Main Event in 2009. In the 2009 NBC Heads-Up Championship, she came in second against Huck Seed and won $250,000. Vanessa Rousso's website is www.VanessaRousso.com, and you can follow her on Twitter @VanessaRousso.

Josh Doody has studied poker theory extensively and has been a successful recreational player over the past ten years, specializing in no-limit hold'em events. Visit Josh's website, www.JoshDoody.com, for additional information, or follow him on Twitter, @JoshDoody.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780593422991
ISBN 10	0593422996
Title	Quit
Author	Annie Duke
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2022-10-04
Number of pages	336
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.