Maybe you have no choice about your life at all, in which case, I’m sorry that you just spent five minutes watching this. I’m not saying you should quit your job if you don’t have a safety net. You may want to fire your children half the time, but sorry, you’re stuck. Then return to what you were doing before - better. Quitting is not the same as giving up, and sometimes quitting is exactly the recalibration you need to figure out what ladder you want to climb. “Simone Biles is launching the conversation mental health experts say is necessary because more people are suffering than we know.” For one of the most decorated athletes in Olympic history, walking away ultimately increased her power because she invested in herself. In doing so, she only increased her power in her sport and in our culture. She was looking out for herself and playing the long game. After she withdrew, she said she should have quit gymnastics before Tokyo. Simone Biles stepped away from competition, even though she lost medals and money in the short term. Lots of great things require perseverance - our relationships, our health, our careers - but think about it. “So when did it become popular to praise quitting?” I’m not saying quit everything. Our culture makes you ashamed of stopping. You’re ambitious, or you’re anxious, or you’re addicted to the idea of your own importance. This trap is something mostly you just made up. Believing you can’t quit what you started is a trap. For example, for professional women, quitting their job and finding a new one is often one of the best ways to increase their earnings. Worse, by continuing to barrel through towards an inevitable dead end, you’re cheating yourself out of all the opportunities quitting might bring. You’re protecting yourself from the fear of regret. How can I possibly call you passive? What you’re doing is avoiding the harder thing, which is confronting the uncertainty of change. There is a significant penalty that comes with staying the course. It’s the cost of opportunities you don’t pursue because you’re focused on what you’re already doing. That’s because we overlook another economic concept, opportunity cost. How can you possibly stop now? This is a trap. It’s the reason you keep dating someone who you no longer smile at or stay up returning work emails with “So sorry for the delay” at the job you hate. It can help explain why you always want to stick something out, even when it’s not going well. Economists call this The sunk cost fallacy. There’s a lot we wound up starting and just never stopped. Are you listening, Steve? Let’s be honest. probably should have quit and others on the court now, too. If justices retired strategically, they could influence their own replacements. A famous one, of course, is the Supreme Court. I blocked YouTube.” There are costs to not quitting. A bunch of us are leaving our religion, and some of us are quitting social media, too. We’re now living in the era of the great resignation. I mean quitting the things you’re supposed to love but secretly hate. That’s all in your head.” What if sometimes quitting isn’t cowardly at all but smart? What if we’ve been wrong about quitting our entire lives? What if the bravest thing you can do sometimes is quit? I’m not talking about quitting these things. “I don’t want to be the mother of a quitter.” We demonize quitters. As Bible-loving Americans, we were taught that perseverance is virtuous, and this message finds us everywhere we go - “(SINGING) So you gotta hang on till tomorrow.” - even when we try to escape into fantasy. “But I’m tired, Mommy.” “Quitter.” Our country wasn’t built on quitters. We Americans are told some version of this again and again. She raised the white flag.” “The Simone Biles story to me is about making quitting not only acceptable but heroic.” Winners never quit, and quitters never win. “Right now, the biggest quitter in sports is Simone Biles. “The American women without Simone Biles earn silver.” Furious debate ensued. Most predicted Simone Biles would lead Team U.S.A. In July, one of the most dominant gymnasts ever withdrew from an Olympic competition. Transcript It’s Quitting Season Time to stop being a martyr to grit.
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