BONUS: Winners Know When To Quit

"Winners quit all the time." ~ Seth Godin

I heard Chris Guillebeau talk about quitting as a way of succeeding on The Portfolio Life podcast episode 101: How to Find Out if You Were Born for This. He was talking to host Jeff Goins about his book Born for This. In the course of their interview Chris said:

"There's a piece of time honored advice for entrepreneurs . . . and that is 'never give up'. . . but that would be terrible advice. Giving up on something is not necessarily a failure. . . Entrepreneurs are all the time closing doors on things. . . They do persist toward the vision, the big picture, but they don't necessarily persist in each project. If something isn't working or you aren't enjoying it anymore, life is short, why keep going?"

Instead of saying, "winners never quit," we should say, "winners don't quit just because it gets hard, but they do quit when a project is no longer working for them."

We tend to equate success with never failing, but that couldn't be further from the truth! Successful people learn from their failings and then try again.

There is one sure fire way to never fail: don't do anything. If you want to succeed, you need to treat failure as an opportunity to learn.