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Re: How to Keep Winning

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Post by chistev »

dosinga wrote: post #9

This advise against quitting you find everywhere is just wrong. Sure you should give it a fair shake, but if you are on a dead end, never quitting means never winning. If something doesn't work, it's possible you should just stop doing it and try something else.

But how would you know when you've gotten to that point of trying something else?

Re: How to Keep Winning

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Post by chistev »

hashemian wrote: post #10
dosinga wrote: post #9

This advise against quitting you find everywhere is just wrong. Sure you should give it a fair shake, but if you are on a dead end, never quitting means never winning. If something doesn't work, it's possible you should just stop doing it and try something else.

I donno, I've come across or read about fair number of people who worked on a crazy idea for a very long time, as if they were planning to throw their life away chasing that idea. Some had a breakthrough and ended up being a huge win. But I'm sure there are many many more who just ended up nowhere. So, I guess it's a gamble.

If you persist and win, they'll write good things about you. If you lose, they'll say you were stubborn.

Re: How to Keep Winning

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Post by BeetleB »

dosinga wrote: post #9

This advise against quitting you find everywhere is just wrong. Sure you should give it a fair shake, but if you are on a dead end, never quitting means never winning. If something doesn't work, it's possible you should just stop doing it and try something else.

"Winners never quit and quitters never win, but those who never win and never quit are idiots"

Re: How to Keep Winning

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Post by ElijahLynn »

I found this article to be inspiring in some ways! I feel like I will go back to some of its wisdom to keep me pushing on in some upcoming hard moment. Not sure just which parts yet, but it is there in my brain for me to dig back on when I get there.

Re: How to Keep Winning

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Post by __s »

dosinga wrote: post #9

This advise against quitting you find everywhere is just wrong. Sure you should give it a fair shake, but if you are on a dead end, never quitting means never winning. If something doesn't work, it's possible you should just stop doing it and try something else.

Steve Levitt pushes this point, did some experiments around it: https://bfi.uchicago.edu/news/to-quit-force-a-moment-of-trut...

Re: How to Keep Winning

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Post by MattGrommes »

> I looked around me and all the other kids were talking and joking around. I thought that was strange. How could you ever win if you're not in the mindset of winning. If you're not locked in?

I'm generally not a competitive person so this is so strange to me. Even as an introvert on the spectrum, this sounds terrible. It's a game, it's supposed to be fun. I'd rather do my best to study ahead of time, have fun, and see where it takes me during the competition.

Re: How to Keep Winning

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Post by datadrivenangel »

dosinga wrote: post #9

This advise against quitting you find everywhere is just wrong. Sure you should give it a fair shake, but if you are on a dead end, never quitting means never winning. If something doesn't work, it's possible you should just stop doing it and try something else.

This advice seems especially interesting because replit has certainly pivoted, so in that sense they kind of did quit?

Re: How to Keep Winning

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Post by bossyTeacher »

dosinga wrote: post #9

This advise against quitting you find everywhere is just wrong. Sure you should give it a fair shake, but if you are on a dead end, never quitting means never winning. If something doesn't work, it's possible you should just stop doing it and try something else.

Problem is that you never know if you are on a dead-end. It is something you can only know in retrospect and even then only sometimes
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