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#254: When to Quit - Lessons from World-Class Entrepreneurs, Investors, Authors, and More

The Tim Ferriss Show

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The Importance of Persistence in Success

The first derivative of downloads was negative. We decided that would be our metric and we got out so we could pursue things where the first derivative improvement was positive or we felt the growth. Many situations like that you should abandon. Sometimes when there's personal things happening in your life that's also a good time to abandon projects. So every day is a new choice to make. And thanks very much for asking me this question, Tim. Good luck.

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