We celebrate grit.
The person who kept going when everyone else stopped.
There are posters for persistence.
Speeches about not giving up.
Entire cultures built on the push.
But there's no curriculum for quitting well.
No framework for reading the room and walking away.
We fear stopping too early.
So we stay too long.
The cost of quitting early is visible.
People notice. They comment.
It looks like failure.
The cost of quitting late is quieter.
Years you won't get back.
Energy buried in the wrong soil.
One mistake gets called a lesson.
The other just gets called commitment.
Knowing when to stop is a skill.
We just never thought to teach it.
