"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
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Successful people give up all the time. If something is not working, smart people don’t repeat it endlessly. They revise. They adjust. They quit.
Just like the saying goes, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
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, com...
Take the goal you didn’t achieve and try a different approach. Doing the same thing over and over to achieve your goal is the definition of insanity.
Your heroes miss their goals too. What makes them stand out is that they don’t give up. The fun of goal-setting is knowing that you’ll...
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