Julia Keller

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.

The word self-help was coined in the middle of the 19th century by a man named Samuel Smiles, who wrote a book called Self-Help with illustrations of character and conduct. And that's when this idea first got going that quitting is bad, changing course is bad, changing how you do something is bad.

The word self-help was coined in the middle of the 19th century by a man named Samuel Smiles, who wrote a book called Self-Help with illustrations of character and conduct. And that's when this idea first got going that quitting is bad, changing course is bad, changing how you do something is bad.

The word self-help was coined in the middle of the 19th century by a man named Samuel Smiles, who wrote a book called Self-Help with illustrations of character and conduct. And that's when this idea first got going that quitting is bad, changing course is bad, changing how you do something is bad.

You have to stick with something that you begin and never quit and never give up or you're a bad person. There was definitely a moral dimension attached to it.

You have to stick with something that you begin and never quit and never give up or you're a bad person. There was definitely a moral dimension attached to it.

You have to stick with something that you begin and never quit and never give up or you're a bad person. There was definitely a moral dimension attached to it.

and again i think that doesn't serve us as human beings very well because we sometimes we need to quit things relationships don't work out like women particularly have been not served well by this idea of quitting as being a negative they're told oh come on just stick with it stick with a little longer in terms of relationships jobs um often quitting is the right thing to do and we don't do it because we're afraid of that term quitter just just as you were saying it kind of made you you know shudder a little bit and recoil to think of tiger woods a great champion like a tiger woods being a quitter

and again i think that doesn't serve us as human beings very well because we sometimes we need to quit things relationships don't work out like women particularly have been not served well by this idea of quitting as being a negative they're told oh come on just stick with it stick with a little longer in terms of relationships jobs um often quitting is the right thing to do and we don't do it because we're afraid of that term quitter just just as you were saying it kind of made you you know shudder a little bit and recoil to think of tiger woods a great champion like a tiger woods being a quitter

and again i think that doesn't serve us as human beings very well because we sometimes we need to quit things relationships don't work out like women particularly have been not served well by this idea of quitting as being a negative they're told oh come on just stick with it stick with a little longer in terms of relationships jobs um often quitting is the right thing to do and we don't do it because we're afraid of that term quitter just just as you were saying it kind of made you you know shudder a little bit and recoil to think of tiger woods a great champion like a tiger woods being a quitter

The other example I give is Simone Biles when she withdrew from the finals of the Tokyo Olympics. Oh, the terrible, terrible name she was called and the terrible negativity was thrown at her. It was awful. Now, she quit because she wanted to continue to fight another day. She knew it wasn't right. She wasn't in the right frame of mind or in the right

The other example I give is Simone Biles when she withdrew from the finals of the Tokyo Olympics. Oh, the terrible, terrible name she was called and the terrible negativity was thrown at her. It was awful. Now, she quit because she wanted to continue to fight another day. She knew it wasn't right. She wasn't in the right frame of mind or in the right

The other example I give is Simone Biles when she withdrew from the finals of the Tokyo Olympics. Oh, the terrible, terrible name she was called and the terrible negativity was thrown at her. It was awful. Now, she quit because she wanted to continue to fight another day. She knew it wasn't right. She wasn't in the right frame of mind or in the right

right body position to do this incredibly perilous job that she needs to do as an elite gymnast. Now she's a magnificent champion, just as Tiger Woods is. And I would maintain that these great champions understand when to quit and when to give up. And I take your point that those are,

right body position to do this incredibly perilous job that she needs to do as an elite gymnast. Now she's a magnificent champion, just as Tiger Woods is. And I would maintain that these great champions understand when to quit and when to give up. And I take your point that those are,

right body position to do this incredibly perilous job that she needs to do as an elite gymnast. Now she's a magnificent champion, just as Tiger Woods is. And I would maintain that these great champions understand when to quit and when to give up. And I take your point that those are,

that those are maybe kind of harsh sounding words because they're words that we have attached all of this negativity to. And it makes it very hard to change course. But suppose we sucked all that negativity away from those words. Suppose we thought of quitting as a positive.

that those are maybe kind of harsh sounding words because they're words that we have attached all of this negativity to. And it makes it very hard to change course. But suppose we sucked all that negativity away from those words. Suppose we thought of quitting as a positive.

that those are maybe kind of harsh sounding words because they're words that we have attached all of this negativity to. And it makes it very hard to change course. But suppose we sucked all that negativity away from those words. Suppose we thought of quitting as a positive.

That's true. And sports is a great example. I mean, I think sports examples are terrific. I think sports is one of the, some of the great metaphors for life. The example I often use is Scottie Pippen, who is persistently asked about his 1992 playoff game when he quit, when he wouldn't go back on the court after a timeout right at the end of the game, because he was mad to