[dosinga]

This advise against quitting you find everywhere is just wrong. Sure you should give it a fair shake, but if you are on a dead end, never quitting means never winning. If something doesn't work, it's possible you should just stop doing it and try something else.

[__s]

Steve Levitt pushes this point, did some experiments around it: https://bfi.uchicago.edu/news/to-quit-force-a-moment-of-trut...

[hashemian]

I donno, I've come across or read about fair number of people who worked on a crazy idea for a very long time, as if they were planning to throw their life away chasing that idea. Some had a breakthrough and ended up being a huge win. But I'm sure there are many many more who just ended up nowhere. So, I guess it's a gamble.

[chistev]

If you persist and win, they'll write good things about you. If you lose, they'll say you were stubborn.

[bossyTeacher]

Problem is that you never know if you are on a dead-end. It is something you can only know in retrospect and even then only sometimes

[Bjartr]

Advice is situational. Some people need to hear "don't give up" and some people need to hear "move on".

[BeetleB]

"Winners never quit and quitters never win, but those who never win and never quit are idiots"

[datadrivenangel]

This advice seems especially interesting because replit has certainly pivoted, so in that sense they kind of did quit?

[bdangubic]

you might be taking “quit” a little too literally :)

[chistev]

But how would you know when you've gotten to that point of trying something else?