Do you give up easily?

[Rainecloud]

When you're struggling to accomplish a difficult task - be it learning to play an instrument or completing a complicated equation - do you give up easily, or do you have a large amount of time and patience for such things?

I devote a lot of time to my Piano playing, and I don't give up easily when I encounter a problem with a specific tune. When it comes to video games, however, I can be very impatient. When I repeatedly die in a game, I usually give up quite quickly, and it takes me a long time before I can go back and attempt to beat it.

And yourself?

[The Captain]

I never give up on anything, which I think is one of my biggest flaws. I always take on projects and continue to plug away even when it seems that the inevitable has begun to set in. Chalk it up to my idealism, but I believe that anything, if worked at hard enough can be finished and worked out for the best.

Perhaps also, I'm just too stubborn to admit defeat.

Take care all.

[Del Murder]

I never give up. Cap is right, it is a flaw. Sometimes you have to let things go.

[The Captain]

The irony though is that it is also a great source of strength, or can be.

Take care all.

[Del Murder]

It is my greatest source.

[The Captain]

I suppose the real key, though obviously, is to pick and choose which battles one continues to fight and which ones one eventually does concede.

Take care all.

[Ko Ko]

I give up only because I hate fighting. It scares me.

[The Captain]

In the literal or figurative sense if I might pry?

Take care all.

[Ko Ko]

I'm serious. When I get challenged I back down. It's just too frightening to keep fighting because I don't want to end up hurting someone.

[The Captain]

Opinions expressed freely don't hurt others so long as you can listen to other people's opinions as well.

Take care all.

[Old Manus]

I gave up reading this thread at reply 2. Also I......forget it.

[Meat Puppet]

I'll give up something if I'm not interested in it. And anything I'm interested in, I'll stick with it until it bores me.

[Loony BoB]

What Meat Puppet said, yeah. I have a lot of projects that I never finished, but at the same time, there are some of them that I've stuck with over many years that I can't see myself letting go of anytime soon.

[Dr.K]

Same as Meat Puppet and BoB. If something's interesting and relevant to my life at the moment I'm doing it, then I'll most likely keep going. Some things really need to be discarded after a while though. My patience with instruments is pretty ambivalent.

[Resha]

It depends. Sometimes I'm too proud and stuck up to give up, which...isn't a good thing?!