Julia Keller

You're a human being and you're making another decision.

You're a human being and you're making another decision.

You're a human being and you're making another decision.

Well, I suppose that's between you and your friends and your therapist and whoever. I mean, but again, I think when we put this moral judgment upon it is what I'm is what I'm, I guess, most upset about when I looked at quitting. You know, I always talk about when I was, I was in grad school, I was 19 years old, I'd graduated from college early. I was, it was terrible.

Well, I suppose that's between you and your friends and your therapist and whoever. I mean, but again, I think when we put this moral judgment upon it is what I'm is what I'm, I guess, most upset about when I looked at quitting. You know, I always talk about when I was, I was in grad school, I was 19 years old, I'd graduated from college early. I was, it was terrible.

Well, I suppose that's between you and your friends and your therapist and whoever. I mean, but again, I think when we put this moral judgment upon it is what I'm is what I'm, I guess, most upset about when I looked at quitting. You know, I always talk about when I was, I was in grad school, I was 19 years old, I'd graduated from college early. I was, it was terrible.

I'd been about a month in grad school and it was very clear to me, this was terrible, this was awful. I had to get out of there, but I was so afraid of being called a quitter. I mean, it clutched at my guts, you know, the idea of being a quitter. Cause you know, I'd been, I loved sports and we all know what we call somebody who,

I'd been about a month in grad school and it was very clear to me, this was terrible, this was awful. I had to get out of there, but I was so afraid of being called a quitter. I mean, it clutched at my guts, you know, the idea of being a quitter. Cause you know, I'd been, I loved sports and we all know what we call somebody who,

I'd been about a month in grad school and it was very clear to me, this was terrible, this was awful. I had to get out of there, but I was so afraid of being called a quitter. I mean, it clutched at my guts, you know, the idea of being a quitter. Cause you know, I'd been, I loved sports and we all know what we call somebody who,

leaves before the game is over we call them a quitter and it's a taunt it's a mean jeer but this is when i first began to question this idea of quitting as being so bad when your body and your mind are telling you you need to be somewhere else why do we resist and one of the reasons i do is i as i suggest and as my research and my interviews uh kind of made clear to me was that

leaves before the game is over we call them a quitter and it's a taunt it's a mean jeer but this is when i first began to question this idea of quitting as being so bad when your body and your mind are telling you you need to be somewhere else why do we resist and one of the reasons i do is i as i suggest and as my research and my interviews uh kind of made clear to me was that

leaves before the game is over we call them a quitter and it's a taunt it's a mean jeer but this is when i first began to question this idea of quitting as being so bad when your body and your mind are telling you you need to be somewhere else why do we resist and one of the reasons i do is i as i suggest and as my research and my interviews uh kind of made clear to me was that

Quitting is something that serves people in power. It serves the people who have control in this world. Because if you look at quitting as a negative, you suggest that all power is in your own hands and that the people who have been successful in life have gotten there because they didn't quit. They were noble. They were intrepid. They were dedicated. They stayed the course.

Quitting is something that serves people in power. It serves the people who have control in this world. Because if you look at quitting as a negative, you suggest that all power is in your own hands and that the people who have been successful in life have gotten there because they didn't quit. They were noble. They were intrepid. They were dedicated. They stayed the course.

Quitting is something that serves people in power. It serves the people who have control in this world. Because if you look at quitting as a negative, you suggest that all power is in your own hands and that the people who have been successful in life have gotten there because they didn't quit. They were noble. They were intrepid. They were dedicated. They stayed the course.

Often they were just lucky.

Often they were just lucky.

Often they were just lucky.

Well, but ask yourself, Mike, why does the word quitting make you feel that? Why do you think I would never call Tiger Woods a quitter? I know what you mean. It was a hard sentence to write when I said Tiger Woods is a quitter. But then I go on to explain, of course, that quitting We think of quitting in a pejorative way, a negative way, and we've been trained to do that.

Well, but ask yourself, Mike, why does the word quitting make you feel that? Why do you think I would never call Tiger Woods a quitter? I know what you mean. It was a hard sentence to write when I said Tiger Woods is a quitter. But then I go on to explain, of course, that quitting We think of quitting in a pejorative way, a negative way, and we've been trained to do that.