When should you quit something?

Deciding to stop a project, habit, job or commitment, and frameworks for it.

Axis: persist through the dip … quit early and move on

Answers by date: 2 records in 2 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2023), never reversed, in these records.

date	who	answer	source
2023-06-22	Ali	However important resilience and consistency are, Ali says, sometimes we have to accept that the best thing to do is change direction despite all the effort put into something, though this is far easier said than done.	The Sunk Cost Fallacy 😐 00:00:29
2022-11-30	Ali	Ali calls Steven Bartlett's quitting framework pretty good: since reading Happy Sexy Millionaire last year (2021) he runs things through it, and it usually leads him to quit things he realises he fundamentally does not want to do.	How to Make Difficult Decisions (without overthinking) 00:13:13