The Case for Quitting: The Surprising Benefits of Opting Out by Lindsay Crouse. “When perseverance turns against us, quitting isn’t just a way out. Often, it’s the first step to something better. A pivot. A break. A chance to go further — or be free.”
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I'm finding myself asking this as something in my life is turning out to be more stress and more angst than I think it's worth. I've been asking, is quitting now and finding something else the right thing to do?
I like quitting and finding nothing else. Just being. Letting whatever is next find me instead of searching.
I'm a huge fan of quitting. I just quit a nonprofit program before right before it started because the facilitator sent out a passive aggressive email about attendance before even meeting any of us, and I didn't like the tone. Quitting is about trusting yourself, and your inner voice that the systems we live and learn in render us incapable of hearing the more we comply. Quitting feels like choosing me over everything else, which I need to do so badly sometimes as a woman who always gives and gives and gives, and stays and stays and stays.
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