How to know when to quit

So, our first question is from Matt, who's 17.

My cross-country coach told me to quit some of my clubs, like student council and Model UN, and I'm also in art class.

He wants me to focus on running.

It doesn't feel right to me.

What should I do? Well, this also happened to me in high school when my cross country coach wanted me to quit theater and student government and soccer and all the other things I was doing and just run.

And it also didn't feel right to me.

I was like number two in California, but I still did not feel right just running.

It wasn't it wasn't right for me.

And I had a fear that that meant that I would never run.

Right.

That I was giving up the potential to.

to one day just run or be great at running.

And the truth was that for me, I'm just sharing this because we're in such similar situations, is that it actually gave me, there were so many benefits to the time that I was not running.

And I did come back to running and I became an Olympian.

And that's the long story short of it.

But the real message here is that We are ever-changing people, and I think the best North Star to follow is the one that understands that we don't know what the future holds and just honors how we're feeling now, because that's the only thing that's true and real.

If you make a decision based on what someone else thinks you should do, you're also making a decision based on an assumption.

And based on an opinion that is somebody else's.

And it's superimposing like a result that may not even happen.

So what you know is true right now is that this doesn't feel right.

And that you want to be a multi-hyphenate at this time.

Doesn't mean you always want to be a multi-hyphenate.

Maybe you always do.

But the fact is...

It's true for you right now.