Two people distinguish quitting from strategic retreat, using examples like turning back from an 8,000-meter Annapurna climb and closing a successful dance studio. They frame retreat as part of an infinite mindset, where setbacks are temporary chapters, not permanent failures, and show how knowing when to step back preserves resources for future attempts.
Chapters
When you set out to do a project, whether it was a mountain climb project or a business project, you know, tell me a time where you, you couldn't summit and you, you had to make the choice to turn around.
There are many mountains, including an 8,000-meter peak, Annapurna, where we had to turn around and move. My dance studio, although it was a big success, we closed, had to shut down the business.
Yeah.
I think there comes a point where retreat will save you so much more in the future. And it's not giving up, it's knowing when to retreat and to say, okay, this is done, this chapter is closed. Life teaches you this when it's giving up and when it's retreat, strategic retreat.
I think that's a brilliant perspective. The United States Marine Corps calls it advancing in the opposite direction.
Oh, I love that.
But the idea that I'm retreating from this goal, I'm retreating from this climb so that I can do it again rather than I'm quitting, I failed. I didn't make it because that mindset is one of completion, right? Rather than close your business, shut your business, business failed, you retreated from it, which I find quite clever actually.
It doesn't have to be a permanent ending and maybe I may not and I might start something else, but this will save my energy to build something else in the future and potentially rebuild this on better terms in a better way.
You naturally embody an infinite mindset. One of the core tenets of an infinite mindset is that everything that happens in your life is part of a continuum. It's not the thing, you know.
