A friend boasted to me
that his kid “was no quitter.”
He said that
as though quitting was something
to be ashamed of.
It isn’t.
Quitting is necessary
for success.
There’s a huge difference
between
quitting because something is hard
and
quitting because something isn’t right
or because something else could be better.
I quit my first job
to take a job
that paid better
and gave me different experiences.
I quit my accounting job
to take a new business development job.
I quit corporate
to start my own business.
I tried and quit
numerous business strategies
before finding one
that worked for me.
“Maybe people think
if I quit this one time,
if I let my kids quit piano
or they quit ballet
or they quit calculus
or something,
it’s going to set them off
on the wrong path
and it’s a slippery slope
and they’re going to ruin their lives.
It ain’t true.
Quitting is not necessarily
the wrong thing to do.
And if you’ve been jammed
into these expectations
your whole life,
arguably quitting
is the bravest thing
you can do.”
Quitting is necessary
for success.
Learn when to quit
and how to quit well.