It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.
Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.
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