
There comes a point where additional investment in a project start giving negative returns and we require to take the difficult decision of quitting on the project. Irrespective of the desire attached to continue, if the NPV is not financially viable, further additional investments will result in higher losses. Thus, the timing to recognise when to quit becomes important to avoid increamental losses.
It applies on people also. When someone has made up their mind about something in you, your efforts to keep trying to prove your worth may result in depletion of chances to reverse their opinion. This is the law of over giving. Too much of effort reduces the value of effort. People start devaluing your presence and it becomes tricky to identify the point when to continue and when to quit.
If you feel, irrespective of the amount of efforts you put in, a particular situation just does not move, quit quietly. Let it go! Make alternate efforts in a different scenario instead of continuing to prove your worth on the same platform to the same people.
There can be points of introspection and alterations required in your behaviour which made those not so high value standards about you. Take them as learning inputs for future modification but for now, take a step back and walk away.
Absence and distance are the blessings in disguise which we rarely acknowledge….
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