The Jekell & Hyde of 'Giving Up'

Giving up is seen as weakness. And giving up on the pursuit of a worthy goal, when you're often so close, is the easy in the short term, painful in the long term outcome

Giving up early when it gets a bit sweaty is weakness. It's lack of vision & long time/term perspective. 

Starting again, again; again is a sure fire way to get nowhere but take a huge amount of time doing it.

But sometimes giving up is feedback that what you're doing doesn't really matter to you. Why keep going doing something just because giving up is seen as weak, or because you're nearly there towards nowhere important?

I started a BA in Architecture & knew in my heart after 2 weeks it wasn't what I really wanted to do. I kept going for another 154 weeks because I didn't want people I'd never met to say to themselves when I wasn't there that I'd given up when they didn't know me

Go figure!

I was stupid NOT to give up. Those almost 3 years cost me almost 6 years of lost opportunity somewhere more meaningful.

Give up now on things that aren't important. Give up on the things you're not going to succeed at. Give up on the things you hate but feel pressure to keep doing. 

But never give up on things that make a difference to you just because it gets hard.

Wisdom in understanding the difference. Are you one step away from a goal that's important to you or far down a road that isn't?

Questions, comments, debates & arguments welcome below

Rob