sown, please jump to that Wikipedia article and look at Seligman's publications (at the bottom). You MUST read his book "The Optimistic Child", which you can pr

sown, please jump to that Wikipedia article and look at Seligman's publications (at the bottom). You MUST read his book "The Optimistic Child", which you can probably get from your local library. The wording of your posts comes right off the pages of that book, and you're old enough and smart enough now to consider the phenomena described in his research and put it to good use. I think your primary need is to be more comfortable in your own skin. That book talks about how. After that, you'll still fail at some things---like the rest of us---but it won't hurt so much. Then, because quitting won't have so much meaning to you, it will be easier for you to give up on something that isn't going anywhere which, ironically, is crucial to eventual success.