As a well-known cliché goes: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result.

Be it an activity, a job or a relationship, we need to quit if things aren’t working out. We are too afraid to quit, and in today’s uncertain, complicated world, we are better off moving on.

• It has been internalized in us since childhood that we should never give up, and that quitting is bad.
• Many of us are stuck in the wrong jobs and due to this idea of not quitting, we waste a lot of productive years.
• We don’t quit because of a cognitive bias known as the