80% of the time you should give up when things get hard. Problem is figuring out the 20%. That's a hard problem you should probably quit on
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said that oftentimes the things not to give up on (directions of research, etc) just wouldn't go away. They self-selected.
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I solved this by predicting which would be impossible and then trying anyway. With a little practice it stops being hard.
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