Our society likes winners. People don’t want to waste their time and are always looking for the best movies to watch, the best places to eat and so on.

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Our culture idolizes celebrities. We recognize and reward the best product, music, organization, or employee. The benefits are substantially skewed, to the point where #1 typically receives ten times the benefit of #10 and a hundred times the benefit of #100.

We feel like giving up. Almost every day in fact. Not all day of course, but there are always moments. Our bet is that you have those moments too… It's about how not to talk yourself into quitting your (work ,relationship, project, ..etc) just cuz it hurts or cuz you can't deal with the stress of the moment

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Strategic quitting is a conscious decision you make based on the choices that are available to you. If you realize you’re at a dead end compared with what you could be investing in, quitting is not only a reasonable choice, it’s a smart one. Market wants to see u persist. It demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, safe.

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Godin describes failure as the last point, the very end of your dream. It means that you have given up, and there are absolutely no more options, you’ve exhausted all of your resources and options. The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.” If we were looking for an editor for our weekly blog posts, then we are looking for the best freelance copy editor who speaks English, who is available to work now and work for a few hours each and every week, and who we can find to work with us at an affordable price. That’s our “best in the world”. If you want a hernia doctor, then your world probably shrinks from anyone you can access over the internet to anyone you can access face to face that can perform the procedure. However, it is extremely important to the individual. You may either be one of the no-hopers in the longer tail, selling one CD every year, or you can work your way up to the short head, where your chances of success are tenfold better. What a spectacularly bad piece of advice. It ranks up there with "Oh, that's a funny dirty joke, let's tell the teacher!" Never quit? Never quit wetting your bed? Or that job you had at Burger King in high school? Never quit selling a product that is now obsolete?

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Anything worth doing will likely have a Dip. Having the ability to push through the tough times, when quitting seems like the easier option. The universe is expanding. Because you can now look for something ANYWHERE when you need it (or someone). The amount of diversity is mind-boggling. The world is determined by what a person is interested in, and that person can locate their preferences wherever on the planet. The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes” It’s easy to BE a CEO… what’s hard is GETTING there. There’s a huge dip along the way. If it were easy, there’d be too many people vying for the job, and the CEOs wouldn’t get paid anywhere near as much. Scarcity is the secret to value. If there wasn’t a Dip, there’d be no scarcity. If It’s Worth Doing, There’s Probably A Dip. The Dip creates scarcity, and scarcity creates value. What To Do About ThemI think the advice-giver meant to say, "Never quit something with great long-term potential just because you can't deal with the stress of the moment." Now that's good advice. Anyone who is going to hire you, buy from you, recommend you, vote for you, or do what you want them to do is going to wonder if you’re the BEST choice. If you’re going to quit, then quit BEFORE you start. Reject the syste Failing is not a choice but the only option you have left once you’ve used up all your resources. Instead, smart quitting is not failing, it’s a way of avoiding failure. Smart quitting is a conscious decision based on what it takes to invest further to emerge from the dip – a choice among more options available to you. One reason people feel really good after they quit a dead-end project is that they discover that hurting one's pride is not fatal. You work up the courage to quit, bracing yourself for the sound of your ego being ripped to shreds--and then everything is okay.