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YOU WANT ME TO WANT TO?

July 17, 2024 by

In Patrick DeWitt’s novel French Exit, the mom asks her thirty-two year old son to get something for her. “Please bring me my cup.” “I will if you want me to.” “I want you to want to.” And he obeys. So I ask . . .

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QUITTING LOSERS FOR BAD PLAYOFF MOOD

May 12, 2023 by

Quitting Losers is the worst show on television. Last night’s episode was the Phoenix Suns quitting on the Denver Nuggets. I’m not a fan of either team, but I am an NBA fan. Why is it especially hurtful to watch professional players quit on a game?

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SPORTS TALK: “SO WHAT? NOW WHAT”

December 14, 2022 by

“So what,” is sports talk when things take a turn for the worse. And keep getting worse. Then comes the, “Now what,” part. Do you ride it on down, or . . . ?

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COVID SURRENDER WORKS BEST FOR QUITTERS

August 15, 2021 by

Doing the covid surrender is easy: No vaccine, no mask? No problem. But why not try a little harder? Why not show some willingness to work together? After all, remember when you asked a friend help and they showed up long enough to quit when it got hard? Are you still friends? Do you still […]

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QUITTERS DO IT FOR A REASON AND IT’S NEVER GOOD ENOUGH

January 21, 2021 by

Quitters. They’re are all over the place, but they’re hard to see. Hard to see because being a quitter isn’t the sort of badge people wear with pride. Sure, quitters can be positive, like quitting cigarettes, but that’s not what we’re here to talk about. In this post the focus is on The Big Quit, […]

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QUITTERS NEVER WIN, WINNERS NEVER QUIT, BUT . . .

July 4, 2020 by

Quitters carry a label that’s hard to peal off, steam off, or scratch off. Once someone gets used to quitting important things, they can quit anything. The best of them develop a skill set where they try to convince themselves they didn’t really quit anything. The reasoning? They were surrounded by real quitters so no […]

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