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When to Give Up - Ideas Matter

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There’s always more than one way to get something done. You might be married to the goal, but you’re not married to any specific attempt to get there. This essay is all about why it's okay to quit.

When to Give Up - Ideas Matter Skip to content Menu Linkedin Twitter Cohort 1: Jan 8 - MAR 1, '24 Devon Stork When to Give Up Collection One Press March 14, 2024 I learned to quit by giving up on my first amazing idea. It was a valuable lesson in not wasting time. In the second year of my PhD research, I was working on making targeted antimicrobial peptides to kill specific pathogens. Five Harvard professors had given their stamp of approval during my qualifying exams, and I was ready to do science that would change the world. Or at least create some new drugs that would probably fail in phase

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