Grit Is Good. But Quitting Can Be, Too.

And so if we have an aversion to starting things where we imagine the ways in which they might not work out, this will actually stop us from starting new things, which in turn stops us from quitting. And so as they discussed it, they realize that in order to get the train all the way up to speed, that you’ll basically have to build almost the whole thing before you could figure out if you could stop it safely, which is tons and tons and tons of money before we can figure out whether we can actually stop the thing safely. Quit while you’re is also really bad advice because the errors we make about quitting are mostly quitting too late, but occasionally it has to do with quitting too early.