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Bette A. Ludwig, PhD 🌱's avatar

I think the problem becomes that quitting has such a negative connotation. We constantly hear the phrases you're not a quitter quitters don't quit.

So you grow up believing that pivoting reevaluating moving moving on means there's something defective about you - that you didn't step up to take care of the situation and learn what you needed to learn to stick with it.

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Piotr Wieczorek's avatar

We’re taught quitting means failure, when really it can be a powerful act of self-awareness. Walking away isn’t weakness, it’s wisdom.

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Bette A. Ludwig, PhD 🌱's avatar

Love it and yes yes yes! We need to see it as pivoting or moving on, not quitting.

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