When should you push through, and when is quitting the smarter move?

This episode looks at Bean Soup Theory, a simple metaphor for why capable people stay stuck in projects that stopped making sense long ago. Using Batgirl as a real-world example, I unpack sunk cost thinking, drift, and why finishing something that’s wrong doesn’t make it right.

This is about judgement, not grit, and learning to stop without turning effort into obligation.

Finishing something that’s wrong doesn’t make it right. It just makes it finished. Carter Ferguson

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QUOTES
“Sometimes strength isn’t about perseverance. Sometimes it’s about knowing when to quit.” – Jennifer Donnelly
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
“When it comes to quitting, the most painful thing to quit is who you are.” – Annie Duke
“The sunk cost fallacy is a hell of a drug.” – Dan Olson
“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.” – William Faulkner

This episode is sponsored by GBM Casting
who have been supplying SAs to the screen and media industry throughout Scotland for over 20 years. We know our people and we know when they’ll fit for you. gbmcasting.co.uk

REFERENCES
Sunk cost fallacy
Escalation of commitment
Loss aversion
Bean Soup Theory
Batgirl film cancellation
Peter Jacobsen – The Daily Economy

Please check out my friends shows:
FILM FIGHTS WITH FRIENDS PODCAST with Stephen Koepfer and Paul Varacchi (etc)
THE FILMMAKERS PODCAST with Giles Alderson (etc.)
THE HORROR CUT with Stephen Kerr and Gary Hewitt
WILDE WORLD with David Wilde
FILMMAKING CONVERSATIONS with Damian Swaby

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