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By not quitting, you are missing out on the opportunity to switch to something that will create more progress toward your goals.

If you are able to cut your losses earlier, it’s a huge win. An added bonus is that it frees you up so you can turn your limited attention and resources to more fruitful endeavors that have a higher expected value, reducing opportunity costs.

You won’t always find something better when you’re forced to quit, but sometimes you will. The problem is that most of us will never discover those other opportunities because we can’t see what we’re not even looking for.

Sometimes, forced quitting gets you to explore new opportunities… And sometimes, being forced to quit gets you to see options that have been right under your nose all along in a new light.

…exploring other opportunities and at least having a start on a backup plan is a cornerstone of making quitting easier.

One of the goals for all of us should be to, as much as possible, maximize the diversification of interests, skills, and opportunities in each of our portfolios.

Left to our own devices, we tend to focus on the thing we’re doing, practically to the exclusion of anything else. It’s not just that we don’t explore other opportunities. We don’t notice them when they’re right in front of us.

Our lives are better if we have a larger portfolio of skills and opportunities available to us. The myopia that goals cause limits the size of that portfolio, because we don’t look for or see alternatives.

Games teach us how to create opportunities for freely chosen, challenging work that keeps us at the limits of our abilities, and those lessons can be transferred to real life.

Flourishing isn’t about pleasure or satisfaction; it’s about living up to our fullest potential. And to truly flourish, we have to be optimistic about our own abilities and opportunities for success.