Jeffrey Lockwood

Because quitting is a way of cultivating, fostering one's character.

Who am I going to be?

No, I think that's absolutely right.

And I think choosing who shall we call your mentors, advisors is, you know, is really important.

And, you know, it's kind of funny, we have this kind of this, what would you call it, socially correct notion that we ought not to judge, right, that we ought to be neutral, that we ought to support people no matter what.

But I don't want friends who are going to support me when I'm doing something stupid.

I don't think they're friends.

I think they should be asking me hard questions.

Why are you quitting?

What are you quitting?

When are you quitting?

And how do you plan to do this quitting?

You know, a good friend is brutally, lovingly frank.

Well, the reason I think that we have such a negative valence about quitting is because we've conflated quitting with being a quitter, right?

I mean, take Simone Biles, right?

The gold medal gymnast.

What is it?

The last Olympics, she had this psychological, physiological disorder, the swirlies, right?

And she was unable to

perform her athletic feats.