How to Tell if It ’ s Time to Cut Your Losses: 6 Signs  

Should I stay or should I go? When we choose one path, we’re forced to surrender the other and either contend with loss and other repercussions of leaving, or forfeit a new opportunity and what might have been. Making a good choice involves predicting how the future will play out. To do this in an informed way requires knowing ourselves and having the perspective to realistically reflect on our current context, our future self and what matters most to us. To complicate matters, decision making is often skewed by personality dynamics and psychological issues that unconsciously limit choice and bias people towards staying or going. Some people reflexively escape or avoid, instead of weathering difficulties and staying the course, while others stay too long and don’t know when it’s time to quit. In spite of intermittent denial and self-deception, people with a pattern of not sticking with things usually can’t help but have some awareness of their pattern of avoidance, because of having had to face repeated criticisms and failures. This frowned upon issue in school and elsewhere is harder to keep under the radar. On the other hand, people who dutifully keep trying, regardless of the cost, are often idealized by others causing this issue to escape detection — and even fuel a feeling of superiority. Being stuck is rationalized and moralized in the name of endurance and loyalty, enabling “good soldier” types to remain blind to the cause of their emptiness and res...
Source: World of Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Perfectionism Relationships Self-Help Success & Achievement Disapproval Failure Source Type: blogs