Yes, never give up but when is it wisdom to quit?

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Scrolling through X I came across this saying, and I'll paraphrase is, "Winners are simply losers who were willing to try one more time." I found this saying to be really true. There is so much of being successful that comes from continuing on your path even when you have experienced major setbacks. Not everything about being a champion is about being the best, but rather to be the person that still showed up.

But not every situation can be solved this way. There are times when quitting is not quitting, but actually being intelligent in knowing when you should stop something and move on. The hard work is finding out whether you should keep trying or you should move on to something new altogether.

When I first started to grow peppers in a farm my Uncle worked on, I planted them in small plastic pots and carried them home and put them at my window. I did it with determination. I watered them regularly even when they looked bad. I tried different fertilizers and still saw no improvement. I finally came to a conclusion and accepted the fact that my window did not get enough sunlight.

A little while back, I was trying to be a technician for my aunt, fixing my her old radio. I took the radio apart and cleaned out all of the components and I followed an online diagram to get everything back together properly. She said it would be better she gives it to a real expert but I told her, mommy didn't pay for my physics and electronics class for nothing.

I spent the entire weekend working on it. After all of that work I ended up ruining the radio. The repair man later told me that the radio had no main board and that it was dead when I started working on it. So all that work was for nothing.

At what point does your persistence to fix something become a waste of time and at what point is that just being determined? I’m really not sure.

Maybe it's not so much about how much you try but how much you pay attention to what you learn during the process of trying to fix it, I think.

Are you working on something that you feel stuck on? I feel stuck sometimes, too. I go back and forth on whether or not I should keep pushing my self forward, and if the only thing I am doing is being stubborn. I don't know how to keep a balanced perspective. I think it really just depends on the day.