When to grit and when to quit?

Ian Higginbottom
2 min readMay 27, 2023

Some say “never quit” is the secret to ‘winning’. That those with ‘grit’ are the ones that make it.

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Context is critical to the question of when to grit and when to quit.

If you quit a job, that does not mean you quit your career path or quit learning and growing.

If your conditions of satisfaction are not being met, then retracting a promise (quitting) is an…

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Ian Higginbottom

I help school principals and executives build the interaction skills of collaboration and leadership. I help leaders have powerful conversations.