FAQ: How Do I Know Whether to Persist or Quit?
Ask whether the underlying hypothesis is still alive.
When a method repeatedly fails, change the method before abandoning the objective. When changing skills, conditions and execution still produces evidence that the goal rests on a false assumption, quitting may be intelligent rather than cowardly.
There is no medal for repeatedly driving into a closed road because a motivational speaker told you winners never turn around.
Update the map.
FAQ: What Should I Do Immediately After a Major Failure?
Do not rush to manufacture a grand life lesson while emotion is still controlling the interpretation. First write down what objectively happened. Then identify what you expected to happen. The difference between those two is the gap that requires investigation. From there, classify the likely correction under method, skill, conditions or expectation.
The course’s core model is useful precisely because it separates the result, the meaning attached to it, the process that produced it and the correction it may indicate.
Pain first.
Diagnosis second.
Correction third.
