Stay or Go

Don’t lose the lesson

We lose.

Worse still, sometimes you understand you’ve lost when there is more “time on the clock.”

I’ve heard in sports; you often learn a lot about the mental strength of a team during this stage.

They often say if they stay and play tough, then they are mentally strong.

I agree.

I also am going to veer a little left of conventional wisdom and say the team that quits is mentally strong as well. It takes guts to know there is nothing left to gain and to stop wasting everyone’s time.

Whatever you do, make sure you do so thoroughly.

The problem is in the middle.

Whenever you play yet want to quit or quit yet want to play, you aren’t learning anything.

The reason is that you skew your attention towards the void of “halfway.” Instead of either giving the current game your all or expending your energy and leaving, you are trying to do both.

Nothing is free. The cost you pay for trying to play both sides is that you don’t learn as much as you would if you stayed focus and you don’t save as much energy if you left.

This idea means that you’re ultimately wasting your time.

If you want to stay, stay.

If you want to quit, quit.

Don’t be half pregnant,here. The only person you hurt is yourself.