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> How do you know now that you were wasting your time? For me, this is very hard advice to give, and I usually equate it to running. When you run, it often hu
by 0x20cowboy 4y ago
> How do you know now that you were wasting your time?
For me, this is very hard advice to give, and I usually equate it to running.
When you run, it often hurts after a while. There is a kind of hurt that you just need to push through, and then there is the kind of hurt that will cause bad or long term damage.
It’s sometime hard to know the difference. You can sometimes quit when you shouldn’t have, and you’ll probably cause an injury or two figuring out the other kind.
Over time you learn what “fake pain” and “real pain” are - in my experience - only after the fact and learning from the past.
This is bad advise so don’t follow it, but I’ve found quitting first, and then feeling horrible about yourself when you find out you shouldn’t have allows you to collect more data than pushing on something that will never work for X years.
- Swizec 4y agoPersevere when winning is worth the cost and quit when it isn’t. Joint pain 20 miles into a 26 mile race? Keep going. Joint pain 10 miles into a 15 mile training run? Quit. Feeling like you’re blowing out your ACL during a race that isn’t at the olympics? Quit. Muscle pain during any type of run? Keep going, that’s growth. Depending on the startup or project you’re evaluating, there are models you can run to decide if what you’re doing is ever going to be worth the pain. SaaS for example has a growth ceiling you can calculate based on a few key metrics. Would be a shame to keep pushing on something that even theoretically doesn’t have the potential to achieve the goal you’re after.
- danielbln 4y agoJust to add, you should never have joint pain, even if you run a marathon. Adjust your running form. At the end of a tough race your muscles should scream at you and some tendons might hurt, but if your joints hurt, you're doing something wrong.
- jazzyjackson 4y agoIn my case joint-pain (petellar tracking) wasn't my running form, it was that running was the only exercise I was doing, so one of my quads was stronger than the others. I balance it out with yoga and swimming now and can run without injury (knock on wood)