How I Stopped Being a Lifelong Quitter

All my life, when the going got tough, I literally got going

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For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a quitter.

When I was five, my parents put me in gymnastics. I was supposed to move from station to station in the large gym, honing my skills on the various pieces of equipment. But I quickly discovered that the pommel horse chafed…