Speaker A and Amy discuss how to know when to stick with something or walk away. They offer a one-day self-reflection exercise to clarify your actual feelings about a decision, separate from what you think you should feel.
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So at what point do you know, Amy, when you should still keep going at it and not giving up on it? And at what point do you know that you've given it enough and it's time to move on?
I think that's such a personal decision. And I. Whenever I'm sitting down with mentees and we're talking through that, one of the things that I'm trying to discern is what is it that you don't like about it? And have you tried to change it in situ, right, in the context of where you are, what have you already done to change the circumstances? Because you don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, right? You don't want to say, oh, I've been here six months, and I don't love everything about it, so I'm going to change jobs, because that won't necessarily fix it. What do you not like about it? And trying to, in some cases, take a day. Like, here's my advice, you take a day off. You go somewhere, somewhere that inspires you. If that's back to campus, wherever it is, go somewhere that inspires you. Sit on with a notebook, don't even bring any devices, and just ask yourself a series of questions like, what do I love about my day? What do I not? What do I want out of the next year? Two years, and some fundamental questions. Write it down, right? And then take a step away from it for a week or so, come back and look and see what you wrote. Because buried in there, right, is a certain amount of insight. When you just stop and distill and. And really are still for a moment, you get a better sense of where your gut is.