Jimmy Chin on perseverance and knowing when to call it

How do you know when to call it?

For me, one of the hardest things to do.

Yeah, you don't seem like a person who's like, no, I'm done. I'm out.

Yeah. I mean, I would say that for better or worse, my only really true skill set is that I can suffer. You know, some people call it perseverance, but at the end

Masochism, maybe?

Yeah.

Okay, first of all, I 100% disagree with you. You have about a billion skill sets, but we'll go with the suffering. We'll go with suffering.

I just outlast the problem or

Whoa whoa whoa. that is that is a quote of the year. I just outlast the problem.

I God

That that that needs to be for every entrepreneur, just outlast the problem. You you'll get there.

I yeah, I should I should write that one.

Just outlast the problem.

And so you get into this thing where you're like, I'm just going to outlast the problem, but sometimes you do have to call it. Yeah. And you know, when when you're motivated and driven and ambitious and have a dream that you have put so much effort and time into, it's it's hard to call it.

Yeah.

I've learned also though, through climbing because climbing is kind of like an exercise and failure, right? Like you you try something that's really hard that you don't think you can do. You fail, you fail, you fail, you you learn, you fail, you learn, you succeed.

Mhm.

then you fail again and then you know, it's a process where you learn to embrace failures and mistakes because those are the you know that that is the iterative process that needs to happen in order to achieve something especially that's really difficult.