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The Best Paragraph I've Read

"When should you give up? You certainly don’t want to give up too soon on finding your way out of the woods, and call the ski patrol unnecessarily. Similarly, you don’t want to give up on your dreams before they’re realized, or on your relationships because they’re sometimes troublesome; you want to be a reliable, determined, heroic individual—someone with grit, who follows through. But, also, persevering can be a grave mistake: sometimes, either actually or metaphorically, you need to admit that you’re lost and call for rescue. How much effort is enough? And when does continued effort become unwise?"

This paragraph comes from an essay in the New Yorker. The essay is titled: "Should You Just Give Up?" The article is written by Joshua Rothman. You can read the full essay here:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/should-you-just-give-up

Zac & Don discuss if its ever ok to give up on something. They wonder if being a quitter bad? They also talk about the idea of changing goals to life tasks.