{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/61de0665cc27c20014ea15cf/61de066f8657180013af4060?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Chris Guillebeau: The Upside of Giving Up","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61de0665cc27c20014ea15cf/61de066f8657180013af4060.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Finish what you start.</p><p>Don't be a quitter.</p><p>When the going gets tough, the tough get going.</p><p>It's a lesson we all learned from well-intended advice-givers somewhere along the way. It's all about character.</p><p>Life's hard, things get hard, the people who survive and do great things in business and life are the ones who keep going, no matter what the road throws in our way.</p><p>But, what if&nbsp;that was wrong?</p><p><a href=\"http://goo.gl/pySTpR\" target=\"_blank\">F</a>What if the people who do great things are are the ones who aren't afraid to quit a parade of wrong things in the name of making the space needed to see and then do the right ones?</p><p>What if finishing what you started was only half the story? The other half being the potential benefits?</p><p>This is what today's GLP Guest Riff is all about, and it comes from World Domination Summit founder and <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of the new book,&nbsp;<a href=\"http://goo.gl/pySTpR\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Born For This</em></a>, <a href=\"http://chrisguillebeau.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Guillebeau</a>.</p><p>Chris delivers some straight-shooting myth-busting about \"stick-to-it-iveness,\" or when it makes sense to keep going and when the best option, both for you and for those you eventually seek to serve, is to just walk away.</p>","author_name":"Jonathan Fields / Acast"}