So grateful to @astroteller and @theteamatx for all their help with #QUIT. 1/
QUIT: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away a.co/d/acms0Q7
QUIT: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away a.co/d/acms0Q7
Aside from just being a super cool dude, @astroteller is obsessed with getting people to quit things on time, maybe more obsessed than I am! 2/
Monkeys and Pedestals goes like this: If you are trying to train a monkey to juggle flaming torches while standing on a pedestal… 4/
Don’t build the pedestal first. Figure out if you can train the monkey first because if you can’t there is no point in building the pedestal. 5/
Plus, you already know you can build the pedestal so if you do that it creates the illusion of progress. You haven’t learned anything new. 6/
Monkeys and Pedestals boils down to this great advice:
Do the hard thing first and avoid false progress. 7/
Do the hard thing first and avoid false progress. 7/
Teams often decide to tackle the low hanging fruit first. Mainly, so they can feel like they’re making progress 8/
But low hanging fruit are pedestals. Don’t go after that until you have addressed the monkeys.
Always approach problems #MonkeyFirst 9/
Always approach problems #MonkeyFirst 9/
#MonkeyFirst helps you to quit things that aren’t worth pursuing because you find out more quickly if you can solve for the bottlenecks 10/
Before you have accumulated the sunk costs associated with pedestal building or tackling the low-hanging fruit. 11/
As you can tell, @AstroTeller is integral to the book and was so deeply helpful in creating the finished product. 12/
Also, a huge shoutout to @theteamatx for hosting me to chat about quitting in the early stages of my writing and for their generosity in sharing reference materials. 13/
There is no doubt that without @AstroTeller and @Theteamatx, #QUIT would not be nearly the book that it is 🙏🙏🙏
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