Psychologist Benjamin Bloom recognized that when future experts were…

Psychologist Benjamin Bloom recognized that when future experts were young parents would use various strategies to keep them from quitting. He also believed that when you can reach a goal either because you regressed or plateau don’t quit. Making an agreement with yourself that you will do what it takes to get back to where you were or get on the plateau and then you can quit, but you probably won’t.

— from Goals, Action & Defining Success (Goal/Action/Success/Motivation) · Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool

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