Mastering the Art of Quitting, Peg Streep
Mastering the Art of Quitting, Peg Streep
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Mastering the Art of Quitting
Why It Matters in Life, Love, and Work

Author: Peg Streep, Alan B. Bernstein

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 7 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 01/01/2014

Synopsis

In Mastering the Art of Quitting the authors show us how to let go when we need to and how to start over. A guide to increasing our emotional and mental flexibility, assessing our goals, and knowing when to hang in or bail out, it tackles our tendencies to overanalyze, ruminate, and put a positive spin on situations we actually need to avoid. In a culture which perceives quitting as a last resort, Alan Bernstein and Peg Streep show that it’s an essential tool for a happy and successful life. They reveal simple truths which apply to goals in all areas of life including love, relationships, and work, including:

Quitting permits growth and learning, as well as the ability to frame new goals.

Without the ability to give up, most people will end up in a discouraging loop.

The most satisfied people know when it’s time to stop persisting and start quitting.

Quitting is a healthy, adaptive response when a goal can’t be reached.

About Peg Streep

An unloved daughter herself, Peg Streep has been researching and writing about the mother-daughter relationship for twenty years, and understands firsthand the broad-ranging effects and influence of a toxic mother. Daughter Detox is her effort to offer practical advice and science-based solutions to those whose emotional needs weren't met in childhood. Peg is the author of Mean Mothers: Overcoming the Legacy of Hurt. She is a popular blogger at both PsychologyToday.com and PsychCentral.com. She holds degrees in literature from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica

Meh. It's a rehash of psychological studies with stories demonstrating their points sprinkled in-between. Just not that ground-breaking or interesting. In the spirit of the book, I quit reading it after about 90 pages.......more

Goodreads review by Ben

So ends the worst explicit experiment in my own behavior I can think of. Not reading was a really awful goal and I'm glad I trashed it. Excuse me --- "quit" it. Oh wait. Actually it's ok not to use the word because the book is barely about quitting at all. It's 90% the same psychological studies as......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth

this book is everything I hoped it would be and more. it is very dense with lots of research information (I'll have to listen a second time i'm sure). the premise is the difference between "loser/lazy" quitting and "realizing it's time to move in a different direction" quitting; but i'm stuck with a......more

Goodreads review by Alexis

Finally! Little nuggets of wisdom throughout. In reality, this deserves more stars because it got me through my own quitting journey. That said, it’s like most “self-help” style books in that about a quarter of it is relevant in the moment and the rest is just fluff. Maybe worth another skim at anot......more

Goodreads review by Adam

This book should be read before a major life event. Reading it after one was kind of redundant. It made me reflect on the occurrence, and may help avoid the future pitfalls, but it didn't make me feel better about current events, nor did it really offer any real solutions for the "now what" phase of......more

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