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Freakonomics Podcast - "The Upside of Quitting"
« on: July 24, 2014, 01:43:00 PM »
"The Upside of Quitting" turns conventional wisdom on its head:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio


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Re: Freakonomics Podcast - "The Upside of Quitting"
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2014, 02:08:41 PM »
a very good one from them for sure, and an old one. I have refered this podcast to friends and family who were on the fence about quiting something.

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Re: Freakonomics Podcast - "The Upside of Quitting"
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2014, 02:22:08 PM »
Summary for those of us without ears?

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Re: Freakonomics Podcast - "The Upside of Quitting"
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2014, 02:27:47 PM »
The gist of it is that they look at quitting something --  a job, a relationship -- while analyzing sunk and opportunity costs from an economic perspective.  Often people under-emphasize the upside of quitting (sometimes by over-emphasizing the sunk costs of those choices.)  There are several interviews with famous "quitters" -- athletes, public figures, average people.  The discuss the psychological implications and strategies for moving on.

The podcast is free and can be downloaded at the link I provided.

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Re: Freakonomics Podcast - "The Upside of Quitting"
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2014, 07:24:45 AM »

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Re: Freakonomics Podcast - "The Upside of Quitting"
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2014, 01:23:42 PM »
Dragoncar-have a transcript-

http://freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/the-upside-of-quitting-full-transcript/

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Mr. PoP

Sweet, thanks.  Like I said, I lost my ears in the war so free podcasts just remind me of my loss.

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Re: Freakonomics Podcast - "The Upside of Quitting"
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2014, 05:08:09 PM »

Dragoncar-have a transcript-

http://freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/the-upside-of-quitting-full-transcript/

Best,
Mr. PoP

Sweet, thanks.  Like I said, I lost my ears in the war so free podcasts just remind me of my loss.

That's terrible.

I thank you for your service.



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Re: Freakonomics Podcast - "The Upside of Quitting"
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2014, 06:21:01 PM »

Dragoncar-have a transcript-

http://freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/the-upside-of-quitting-full-transcript/

Best,
Mr. PoP

Sweet, thanks.  Like I said, I lost my ears in the war so free podcasts just remind me of my loss.

That's terrible.

I thank you for your service.

I'd salute you, but I also lost my hands.

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Re: Freakonomics Podcast - "The Upside of Quitting"
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2014, 10:20:39 AM »

Dragoncar-have a transcript-

http://freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/the-upside-of-quitting-full-transcript/

Best,
Mr. PoP

Sweet, thanks.  Like I said, I lost my ears in the war so free podcasts just remind me of my loss.


That's terrible.

I thank you for your service.

I'd salute you, but I also lost my hands.

and your sense of sarcasm, clearly!

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Re: Freakonomics Podcast - "The Upside of Quitting"
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2014, 09:09:47 AM »
good stuff!  thanks for the share.

and Dragoncar, that's some funny shit!

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Re: Freakonomics Podcast - "The Upside of Quitting"
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2014, 09:18:21 AM »
I'd salute you, but I also lost my hands.

I'm literally crying with laughter at work right now. Classic!

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Re: Freakonomics Podcast - "The Upside of Quitting"
« Reply #11 on: August 08, 2014, 09:07:32 AM »
Hilarious!

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Re: Freakonomics Podcast - "The Upside of Quitting"
« Reply #12 on: August 08, 2014, 10:22:25 AM »

Dragoncar-have a transcript-

http://freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/the-upside-of-quitting-full-transcript/

Best,
Mr. PoP

Sweet, thanks.  Like I said, I lost my ears in the war so free podcasts just remind me of my loss.

That's terrible.

I thank you for your service.

I'd salute you, but I also lost my hands.

Is this a pop culture reference?  If so, I'm not familiar with it.  Please let me in on it.


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Re: Freakonomics Podcast - "The Upside of Quitting"
« Reply #13 on: August 08, 2014, 10:57:06 AM »

Dragoncar-have a transcript-

http://freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/the-upside-of-quitting-full-transcript/

Best,
Mr. PoP

Sweet, thanks.  Like I said, I lost my ears in the war so free podcasts just remind me of my loss.

That's terrible.

I thank you for your service.

I'd salute you, but I also lost my hands.

Is this a pop culture reference?  If so, I'm not familiar with it.  Please let me in on it.

I don't think so. I think it's just dragoncar doin his thing.

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Re: Freakonomics Podcast - "The Upside of Quitting"
« Reply #14 on: August 09, 2014, 11:43:35 AM »

Dragoncar-have a transcript-

http://freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/the-upside-of-quitting-full-transcript/

Best,
Mr. PoP

Sweet, thanks.  Like I said, I lost my ears in the war so free podcasts just remind me of my loss.

That's terrible.

I thank you for your service.

I'd salute you, but I also lost my hands.

Is this a pop culture reference?  If so, I'm not familiar with it.  Please let me in on it.

I don't think so. I think it's just dragoncar doin his thing.

To me it's always been a pretty common trope, but this is the best I could come up with in terms of unassailable pop-culture authority:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnArmAndALeg

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Re: Freakonomics Podcast - "The Upside of Quitting"
« Reply #15 on: August 30, 2014, 10:42:47 PM »
My favorite version of this trope - after dragoncar's - is the Freedom episode of Futurama (S5E03?), with the lawyer who defends Zoidberg.

On topic, there's been a lot of good quitting literature lately.

The Dip, by Seth Godin, is a good example:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Dip-Little-Teaches-Stick/dp/1591841666
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