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Gilgamesh · 07-24-2008

This situation surely happened to everyone around here and here are the factors you have to weigh in if it is a goal or objective you have been working on:

1- The amount of effort/time already put into or towards that goal

2- The remaining amount or estimated amount of effort/time you expect you have to employ to finalize (whether get to that goal or get to a point where you know it is impossible to reach it) the journey to that goal

3- The possibility of success (again estimated)

It is pretty simple, most people continue pursuing a goal simply because they have put already a lot of effort into it. That is not necessarily a bad logic since if you are 90% through to finalizing the journey towards that goal, it might be wiser to continue even with a relatively low expected possibility of success. However if you find that you have a low possibility of success (can be determined by being objective about one's abilities and studying similar cases) and the amount of effort needed is more than the one already employed or put towards that goal, it is wiser to give up (People call that damage-control where you accept the effort and time already lost because by that you avoid losing more time and effort towards a goal with a low expected possibility of success)

07-24-2008	#4
Gilgamesh Registered Member Last Online: 11-16-2009 Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,005 Thanks: 632 Thanked 1,449 Times in 834 Posts Groans: 12 Groaned at 9 Times in 8 Posts	Re: When is it time to give up? This situation surely happened to everyone around here and here are the factors you have to weigh in if it is a goal or objective you have been working on: 1- The amount of effort/time already put into or towards that goal 2- The remaining amount or estimated amount of effort/time you expect you have to employ to finalize (whether get to that goal or get to a point where you know it is impossible to reach it) the journey to that goal 3- The possibility of success (again estimated) It is pretty simple, most people continue pursuing a goal simply because they have put already a lot of effort into it. That is not necessarily a bad logic since if you are 90% through to finalizing the journey towards that goal, it might be wiser to continue even with a relatively low expected possibility of success. However if you find that you have a low possibility of success (can be determined by being objective about one's abilities and studying similar cases) and the amount of effort needed is more than the one already employed or put towards that goal, it is wiser to give up (People call that damage-control where you accept the effort and time already lost because by that you avoid losing more time and effort towards a goal with a low expected possibility of success)