This document discusses strategies for continuing with projects or tasks when facing challenges or wanting to quit. It suggests recognizing when to abandon projects that are not succeeding and focusing on a few key ideas that show potential. Some strategies mentioned include breaking projects into smaller steps, finding an accountability partner, scheduling time for the project, and taking breaks to view it differently.

1. We restore
order with
imagination

2. If at first you don't succeed, try, try
again. Then quit. There's no point in
being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields
A professional writer is an amateur
who didn't quit.
Richard Bach

3. recognising when to give up

4. the journey!
look at your methodology -

5. "fail quickly."
• If I started with a hundred ideas, I'm lucky if
two or three of those ideas will ever turn into
academic papers. One of my great skills as an
economist has been to recognize the need to
fail quickly and the willingness to jettison a
project as soon as I realize it's likely to fail.
Freakonomics

6. sunk cost

7. opportunity cost

8. small group work

9. strategies for continuing
what would I rather be doing?

10. strategies for continuing
remember the reason(s) you started in the first
place -

11. strategies for continuing
take time to think differently -

12. strategies for continuing
make a contract with yourself -

13. strategies for continuing
find someone to trust

14. strategies for continuing
have a schedule -

15. share

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write notes -

17. share

18. strategies for continuing
break it down –

19. strategies for continuing
wallow –

20. strategies for continuing
go out -

21. strategies for continuing
be scared –

22. strategies for continuing
learn to forget –

23. envisage yourself doing ‘it’

24. ‘coin toss’

25. stop focusing on the struggle -

26. share

27. What gets in the
way of us doing
what we need to
do?

28. What strategies do
we use to help us?

29. it’s premortem
time................