The Element of Grief That We Don't Want to Deal With

"There's always a finish line implied. And if you quit something short of the finish line, I think that's really hard for us because we failed to reach it," he says. "We need to think about the progress along the way or, well, I learned something that I reacted to it well." The fear of having wasted our time is what creates the waste from quitter-itis and other feelings of failure.