Sometimes when I feel that I’m in a hopeless situation without any winning move, I really want to just give up. In those situations, the best thing I can do is often to ask myself:
“What’s the alternative?”
Often in these situations, there aren’t really any alternatives other than to completely give up. So then I ask myself if I want to give up whatever goal I’m working towards, and if not, I don’t really have any alternative than to keep grinding.