The Jolts That Make Us Quit — and the Ones Worth Ignoring (with Anthony Klotz)
About this episode
The episode discusses the concept of 'jolts' that lead to quitting jobs, featuring insights from Anthony Klotz on why people leave and stay in their careers.
My book, Productiveness, is now available. It's about the difference between doing more and doing what matters, and how we lost the ability to tell them apart. I'll send the release date the day it's set. Visit https://mikevardy.com/productiveness to learn more and get your copy today. Most of us don't drift into quitting a job. Something happens — a single, identifiable moment — and that's when the relationship with our work actually changes. Anthony Klotz calls these moments "jolts," and once you have the word for it, you start seeing them everywhere: in your own career, in the people around you, in decisions you made years ago that you never quite had language for until now. Anthony is the organizational psychologist who coined the term "the Great Resignation," and his new book, Jolted: Why We Quit, When to Stay, and Why It Matters , is the deepest treatment I've read of why people actually leave jobs — and just as importantly, why they sometimes shouldn't. We got into direct jolts versus honeymoon jolts, why positive jolts are rarer and more powerful than negative ones, the "power surge" that hits right before someone quits, and why silence is usually the smartest exit…
Topics covered
- quitting
- organizational psychology
- career decisions
- work relationships
- jolts
- Great Resignation
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