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Try to become a quitter 学会放弃

我属于不擅长说“不的那类人，一次揽太多活儿，花太多时间做自己原本不想做的事情。我常对自己说：“好吧，既然已经在这些事情上花费了太多时间，那就一直做下去。而有一天，我的一位朋友对我说：“在我读一本书读到第500页时发现不喜欢它，我没有接着读完，而是把它扔在一边，这时我才发现自己真正成熟了。……

I'm one of those people who's terrible at saying no. I take on too many projects at once, and spend too much of my time doing things I'd rather not be. I get stuff done, but it's not always the best I can do, or the best way I can spend my time.

That's why my newest goal, both as a professional and a person, is to be a quitter.

Being a quitter isn't being someone who gives up, who doesn't see important things through to the end. I aspire to be the opposite of those things, and think we all should. The quitter I want to be is someone who gets out when there's no value to be added, or when that value comes at the expense of something more important.

I want to quit doing things that I'm asked to do, for no other reason than I'm asked to do it. I want to be able to quit something in mid-stream, because I realize there’s nothing good coming from it.

A friend of mine once told me that "I knew I was an adult when I could stop reading a book, even after getting 500 pages into it." Odd though it sounds, we all tend to do this. We get involved in something, realize we don't want to be a part of it, but keep trucking through. We say "well, I've already invested so much time in this, I might as well stick it out."