{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"A Productive Conversation","title":"The Jolts That Make Us Quit — and the Ones Worth Ignoring (with Anthony Klotz)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2698,"description":"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.\nAnthony 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 strategy. I shared my own Costco story along the way — a demotion that turned out to be one of the clearest jolts of my working life.\n\nSix Discussion Points\nA \"jolt\" is a single identifiable event that knocks you out of autopilot with your work — almost half of all quitting decisions trace back to one, rather than a slow, logical decline.\nThe instinct after a jolt is to react immediately; the better move is almost always to reflect first, because doing nothing right away is often the strongest default option.\nPositive jolts exist but are rarer and less discussed than negative ones — our brains are wired to dwell longer on the bad, even though a compliment or a big win can just as easily be the moment that changes everything.\nThe \"honeymoon hangover effect\" explains why job-change regret is so common: we see all the flaws in our current role and only the upside of the next one, until the new role reveals its own brown spots.\n\"Leaning back\" — quietly renegotiating your extra, unpaid job tasks — is an underused alternative to quitting that doesn't require dramatic action or...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/RaxQE_yNeOcP9CV60hOV3GBXJq5J7iHtixqMZ6k8ieU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ODBi/MTA3MDFjYjQwMDVj/ZGQ2N2I1MjZiNjhh/YTlhMS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}