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Jeremy Jones on Quieting the Mind and Confronting Fear with Snowboarding

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Art of Chauvinism

Annie Duke wrote a book on quitting and she was saying, you know, a poker player has to quit hands. But that's not the same as getting up and leaving the table. So I do like the idea of, of living to ride another day just because you're walking away from a particular line or a particular project or a particular thing. That doesn't mean you're a quitter as a whole. You're just quitting something that is more downside than upside. And it's wild because in mountaineering you hear the talk about my greatest failure is when I got so close to the summit and I'm like, that's your greatest accomplishment.

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