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why everyone needs to quit
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 21:00:00 GMT
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Chapter 1: Why is quitting sometimes necessary?
Don't let anyone tell you that quitting is a bad thing. If you gave it your all and you realized it's not for you, how is that a bad thing? If someone were to ask me, do you remember the day that your childhood dream was crushed? I would tell them yes, in a heartbeat. I know the day. I was playing soccer. I had gone on this incredible journey of wanting to be a better soccer player.
Chapter 2: What was the childhood dream related to soccer?
I had made improvements in my first year of high school. I played really, really well. And I wanted to play professionally. That was my dream. As I got older, I knew, okay, maybe I didn't have what it took to be the next Bellingham. But I knew that I could be good. Maybe I could play in college. I'm at this college showcase with a team that I was trying out for.
And I'm playing and everything was just going wrong. I had terrible stage fright. I couldn't find my footing. And every mistake I made was just bad. It just got worse and worse and worse. The coach got so frustrated that he pulled me off the field. He's like, what are you doing? And I'm like, I don't know. I'm just, it's not my day, I guess.
Chapter 3: How did a coach's advice impact the speaker?
And I remember the look in his eyes when he told me this. It was very... It was very cold and it was very sincere. And I feel like he told me this because he saw a part of him in me. And he said, you really got to decide if you're going to play. And I'm like, what? If I'm going to play what? Like CDM or CM? Like what position? When? Like how I'm going to play? And he says, no.
You really got to decide if you want to play this sport. had spent at that point i would say like a good eight seven years of my life trying to improve trying to get better and as i think a lot of us know in youth sports it's it's it's hard it's really hard you have this dream you want to be a professional whatever football player basketball player you want to be a professional golfer
Chapter 4: What realization came from playing soccer?
It looks so beautiful, but the truth of the matter is that moment made me really realize a lot of things and it made me reflect. And what it really made me realize was this. It's time to stop. The journey for me becoming a professional football player was over. How? Bro, you're not supposed to quit. You're not supposed to quit when you really, really love something.
Chapter 5: Is it okay to stop pursuing a dream?
When you feel like that is your thing, you are going to make it by any means and you know you're good at it. But to me, this, it was just a dream. Let's be real. It was just a dream. I didn't have what it took. And that conversation with that coach, I hated that. I hated it. I didn't like the fact that he told me the truth.
Chapter 6: How does passion differ from commitment?
Because when I really thought about it, anyone who would have been in the position of I am going pro no matter what, they would have heard that and be like, let me prove you wrong. Let me prove you wrong. But I didn't. I had more fun And I had more energy towards learning how to edit videos, towards learning how to be a craftsman, towards learning how to be a filmmaker.
Chapter 7: What lessons can be learned from quitting?
I just had more energy towards that. And I knew that my soccer dreams, it was time to stop. It was just time to stop Trying to lie to myself that it was going to happen and that I wanted it. Because I didn't. I didn't want it. When you're playing with people who wake up in the morning and the first thought is to kick a ball, it's kind of hard to compete. Los machen? Können wir.
Vormachen, mitmachen, stark machen? Können wir. Warmachen, möglich machen, schön machen, Freude machen, Sinn machen? Können wir. Pause machen? If you're in a field where you're not you just you don't have the it factor that determination that grit
It's hard to keep going. And don't get me wrong, I still play soccer to this day. I love soccer. It is my favorite sport. But I just didn't love it enough to go pro. I just didn't. I just wasn't good enough. And at a certain point, I had to realize that stopping and quitting was okay. It was fine. Did it hurt my ego?
Yes, but I still went into the rest of my high school years playing soccer, the rest of my club years with let me just have fun. because I don't have what it takes. I'm not willing to commit that time. It is just not something I want to genuinely do. And a lot of us will come to this kind of position in our lives, not once, but many times. Many times.
You will try something, you will learn that you are good at it, but you will learn very quickly that there are people that are way better than you. Way better than you. And that will either motivate you to keep exploring your talent and get to their level or that will make you realize it's time to stop. It's time to stop. Or you'll realize that you want to do it as a hobby.
That you just want to have fun with it. And that's great. I had some incredible memories playing IM Soccer at the University of Georgia. I loved it. It was so fun. But I knew that I wasn't going to be playing on no club team. I wasn't going to be playing no professional. It's just not me. I wasn't good enough. And this decision to stop, single-handedly, the best decision I made in my life.
Well, one of them. There's levels. There's a lot of really good decisions I've made. There's a lot of really bad decisions I've made. But realizing that it was time to stop and the energy that I could spend I could use elsewhere, right?
The energy that I had for soccer that I was putting in, going to two trainings a day, trying to do, you know, learn how to do a Rabona perfectly so it goes upper top bins. Like, that same energy, I could use it on learning the things that I actually felt like, hey, I'm good at this and I can be generational at this. And I want you to do the same. Because the sooner you realize this,
The sooner that you realize that maybe there's things that you need to stop, the sooner you have the freedom to start new things and to get really good at new things. And maybe it's the opposite. Maybe you're doing something artistic and you actually are like six, seven and you should be in the league. Maybe this is your calling to try that. Maybe it's time to stop.
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