We restore order with

imagination

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

recognising when to give up

the journey!look at your methodology -

"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

sunk cost

opportunity cost

small group work

strategies for continuing

what would I rather be doing?

strategies for continuing remember the reason(s) you started in the firstplace -

strategies for continuing

take time to think differently -

strategies for continuing

make a contract with yourself -

strategies for continuing

find someone to trust

strategies for continuing

have a schedule -

share

strategies for continuing

write notes -

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strategies for continuing

break it down –

strategies for continuing

wallow –

strategies for continuing

go out -

strategies for continuing

be scared –

strategies for continuing

learn to forget –

envisage yourself doing ‘it’

‘coin toss’

stop focusing on the struggle -

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

What strategies do we use to help us?

it’s premortem time................