{"id":224220,"date":"2021-04-09T11:31:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T08:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/heres-why-you-should-quit-2\/"},"modified":"2021-04-09T11:31:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T08:31:40","slug":"heres-why-you-should-quit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/heres-why-you-should-quit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#Here\u2019s why you should quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26b77b990d1\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26b77b990d1\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/heres-why-you-should-quit-2\/#The_sunk_cost_fallacy_is_real\" >The sunk cost fallacy is real<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/heres-why-you-should-quit-2\/#Its_also_true_in_business\" >It\u2019s also true in business<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/heres-why-you-should-quit-2\/#Sometimes_you_have_to_move_on_%E2%80%94_and_learn_from_it\" >Sometimes you have to move on \u2014 and learn from it<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Here\u2019s why you should quit<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image?fit=796%2C417&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2021%2F04%2Fquit-give-up-work-gq.png&amp;signature=a04699bd0dde8f56998d226b8e2c2979\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                            Quitters never prosper. Never give up. If at first, you don\u2019t succeed, try, try again.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many sayings with the same basic message: quitting is bad. This idea is instilled in kids, internalized by adults, and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly just considered common sense.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also often wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I once had a job that, in retrospect, I should have quit earlier. I stuck around two years longer than made sense, all because I thought giving up would be a personal failure on my part. That was wrong. When I finally left, I was h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ier, more productive, and better off.<\/p>\n<p>I quit, and then I prospered.<\/p>\n<p>Why did I keep doing a job that wasn\u2019t working for so long\u2014even when I had other options? Because of the prevailing cultural norm that quitting is bad. I felt like walking away would be a failure on my part, so I put off doing it.<\/p>\n<p>This idea \u2014 that quitting is bad \u2014 deserves to be questioned.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_sunk_cost_fallacy_is_real\"><\/span>The sunk cost fallacy is real<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Let\u2019s lower the stakes a little. My Zapier coworker Katie recently <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kredlear\/status\/1364018797233860609?utm_source=zapier.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=zapier\">told me<\/a> that she used to force herself to finish books she hated. That\u2019s relatable. If you spent money on a book, then spent a bunch of time reading it, it feels like you <em>have<\/em> to finish it. Wouldn\u2019t that time and money be wasted otherwise?<\/p>\n<p>It sounds logical, but it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s an example of the sunk cost fallacy, a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/zapier.com\/blog\/cognitive-bias\/\">cognitive bias<\/a> that causes us to commit to continuing to do something we\u2019ve already invested in.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to think that, by not finishing a book you started, you\u2019re somehow losing all the time you put into the book so far. That\u2019s not true: your time is already gone, regardless of how you spend it going forward. Finishing the book won\u2019t retroactively justify the bad time you\u2019ve had reading it so far \u2014 it just means you\u2019ll have more of a bad time.<\/p>\n<p>Ask yourself: is reading more of a book that you hate the best thing you could be spending your time on going forward? Because <em>that\u2019s<\/em> what you can control. You can\u2019t change how you spent time in the past, but you <em>can<\/em> decide what you want to do going forward. You could spend time reading something you actually enjoy but only if you quit reading the thing you hate.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also not true that the time you spent reading the book was wasted if you stop reading. You learned something about the kinds of books you don\u2019t like, which is a good thing to know. You also tried something new, which is valuable in and of itself. And you now have the opportunity to write a scathing review on Goodreads or make jokes with your friends about the terrible book you never finished. These results apply regardless of whether you finish the book.<\/p>\n<p>Quit. You\u2019ll be better off.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Its_also_true_in_business\"><\/span>It\u2019s also true in business<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>All of this same logic applies to work, or running a company. It\u2019s easy if you\u2019ve put many hours into a project or career path, to think that you should continue working on that indefinitely \u2014 even if it\u2019s not working out. After all, quitting means admitting that something isn\u2019t working, and that\u2019s a really hard line to cross.<\/p>\n<p>The thinking here is exactly the same: if you stop now, all of the time you spent on the project or opportunity is wasted. It\u2019s way too easy for this mentality to lead to spinning your wheels on something that\u2019s not working.<\/p>\n<p>Cortney, executive assistant here at Zapier, told me she had to do this before finding her current profession:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I thought because I got a degree in marketing, and because my first few jobs were in marketing, that I had to stick with it, even though it was making me really unhappy. I quit, and I am much better for it now! Very happy and my current role is much more aligned with my interests and skill set.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In some cases, you can salvage a project if you put more time into it \u2014 and some books have twist endings that retroactively justify how hard the beginning was to read. But not every time.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not going to pretend I can tell you how to know which situation you\u2019re in, but it\u2019s important to consider the possibility that quitting is the best option.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Sometimes_you_have_to_move_on_%E2%80%94_and_learn_from_it\"><\/span>Sometimes you have to move on \u2014 and learn from it<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I already threw out a bunch of cliches, so here\u2019s another one: \u201cThe definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2017\/03\/23\/same\/?utm_source=zapier.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=zapier\">Einstein never said this<\/a>, but someone did, at some point, and people attribute it to Einstein because they think it\u2019s smart.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no sense in continuing to do something that\u2019s not working for you, and quitting is the easiest way to not continue. Another Zapier colleague Breetel put it well in a message she sent me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To quit means you have to honor your instincts and the desire for something else, but it also demands that you take a leap of faith. It requires you to trust yourself and the world enough to believe you will be ok without whatever membership, credential, activity, situation, or person you are walking away from.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This isn\u2019t just true when it comes to reading books or doing your job. It\u2019s true in every aspect of your life. Sometimes you\u2019re going to put work into something \u2014 a hobby, say, or even a relationship \u2014 only to realize it\u2019s not working. Knowing when to walk away is an essential life skill.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t to say that everyone reading this should quit their jobs if they don\u2019t like them \u2014 there are good reasons to keep doing something that\u2019s not perfect, or even far from ideal. But it\u2019s too easy to keep on doing things that aren\u2019t working, and our culture\u2019s emphasis on not giving up only plays into this.<\/p>\n<p>Keep this in mind, and maybe be a little less afraid of quitting in the future.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>This article by Justin Pot was originally published on the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/zapier.com\/blog\">Zapier blog<\/a>\u00a0and is republished here with permission. 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Never give up. If at first, you don\u2019t succeed, try, try again. There are so many sayings with the same basic message: quitting is bad. This idea is instilled in kids, internalized by adults, and generally just considered common sense. It\u2019s also often wrong. 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