When should you give up? It’s a more intriguing question than it may at first appear. We live in a culture that admires persistence: a society which believes that when the going gets tough, the tough should get going.
We work to instil our children with grit, the “can-do” mentality that will help them push on that extra mile toward success.
In fact, our language is full of clichés extolling the virtues of dogged persistence. And yet, at some level, we all know that there are limits to how far one should go on trying to achieve an elusive goal.
As Albert Einstein famously said, doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is insanity.
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