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At every moment of your life, you have a choice about whether to stay or whether to go. When you choose to stay, you are also choosing not to go. When you choose to quit, you are also choosing not to continue. It’s crucial to start realizing that those are the same, active decisions.
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We are all trying to defend ourselves against how we imagine other people are going to judge us. We get it in our heads that if we don’t stick to our original choice, that will reflect negatively on us.
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When it comes to business endeavors, career choices, or decisions about your personal life, we should all be striving for two things: First: you should find at least one person to be your quitting coach. Second, you should try to service in that role for the people you love.
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It’s our decision whether to quit, and we’re the ones least equipped to make a rational choice.
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When a goal is all-or-nothing, your choices are essentially not to start or stick to the goal no matter what.
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If you feel like you’ve got a close call between quitting and persevering, it’s likely that quitting is the better choice.
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Games make us happy because they are hard work that we choose for ourselves, and it turns out that almost nothing makes us happier than good, hard work.
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When we don’t choose hard work for ourselves, it’s usually not the right work, and the right time, for the right person.
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All good gameplay is hard work. It’s hard work that we enjoy and choose for ourselves. And when we do hard work that we care about, we are priming our minds for happiness.
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Busywork generally gets a bad rap in our real lives, but when we choose it for ourselves, it actually helps us feel quite contented and productive.
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