#43 – Quitting

from Risking Failure · host Mark Dobson & Mick Dunn: Philosophers of Human Experience

How do you know when you should quit, when you should already have quit and at what point to quit something in the future? This week, we talked about the fear of doing something (for years) that was destined for “average”, and the fear of wasting away a decade or more of your life working […]

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