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This advise against quitting you find everywhere is just wrong. Sure you should give it a fair shake, but if you are on a dead end, never quitting means never w
by dosinga 11mo ago
This advise against quitting you find everywhere is just wrong. Sure you should give it a fair shake, but if you are on a dead end, never quitting means never winning. If something doesn't work, it's possible you should just stop doing it and try something else.
- hashemian 11mo agoI donno, I've come across or read about fair number of people who worked on a crazy idea for a very long time, as if they were planning to throw their life away chasing that idea. Some had a breakthrough and ended up being a huge win. But I'm sure there are many many more who just ended up nowhere. So, I guess it's a gamble.
- chistev 11mo agoIf you persist and win, they'll write good things about you. If you lose, they'll say you were stubborn.
- chistev 11mo agoBut how would you know when you've gotten to that point of trying something else?
- BeetleB 11mo ago"Winners never quit and quitters never win, but those who never win and never quit are idiots"
- __s 11mo agoSteve Levitt pushes this point, did some experiments around it: https://bfi.uchicago.edu/news/to-quit-force-a-moment-of-truth-2 https://bfi.uchicago.edu/news/to-quit-force-a-moment-of-trut...
- datadrivenangel 11mo agoThis advice seems especially interesting because replit has certainly pivoted, so in that sense they kind of did quit?
- bdangubic 11mo agoyou might be taking “quit” a little too literally :)
- bossyTeacher 11mo agoProblem is that you never know if you are on a dead-end. It is something you can only know in retrospect and even then only sometimes
- Bjartr 11mo agoAdvice is situational. Some people need to hear "don't give up" and some people need to hear "move on".