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How to get unstuck, with Adam Alter, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

CHAPTER

How to Know When It's Time to Quit

When a person's been stuck on something for a long time, how do they know when it's time to quit? Is there some kind of a cost-benefit analysis that people could do in such cases? "I think I push quite firmly on the idea of persevering in general," she says. But if all you're doing is slogging through the process and you don't feel like you're converging then at some point you need to quit.

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