Not so sure the math checks out on this one.

I'm not actually sure "never give up" is good advice. Sometimes giving up is an important step forward. At the least it's important to regularly reevaluate your situation.

fall seven times, winter eight...blame it on global warming

Fall seven times, go to doctor for a brain scan or buy a wheelchair

It's like that quote about insanity. If something isn't working, don't keep doing it.

Fall seven times it might be time to shovel and salt your walkway. It's cold out there folks. Be safe.

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-Chumbawamba

Fall seven times get up seven times. Why are you getting up an extra time. The getting up is the action after falling down. Fall down, get up, fall down, get up, so on and so forth. So you fall down seven times, you get up seven times.

I stopped getting up, why am I still falling?

of course you would stand eight times, you got to fall first

This made me laugh really hard.

Totally! I think we can simplify it to "the definition of insanity is never giving up" 😆

I have a similar saying. Fall 73388 times, stand up 73389.

oh it sure doesn't, makes me irrationally angry

Bro 8 is a number it can't stand up

It's not irrational, there's nothing worse than a very motivated person who doesn't understand math!

It feels like Micheal Scott wrote this

My only rational conclusion is you get up out of your bed so the first Get up. Fall one leads to Get up 2 and so on and so on.

My conclusion. Getting up in the morning is 1, first fall leads to get up 2, second fall leads to get up 3 and so on and so forth

Echo Charles on the Jocko Podcast had an epic rant about this some years back. I'd honestly never considered it until that point.

Sort of, but in more of an umbrella term you might have a goal and multiple ways of getting there. "quitting" a certain path and taking another could attain the same goal, so one could say never give up because there might be a better way.

People think giving up means giving up on the goal not the path you are taking there.

The math doesn't work that way.

”….pissing the night away…”

Edit: apparently one of you is not a Chumbawumba fan.

You start on the ground

A literal impossibility If you fall 7 times it implies you are standing B E F O R E the first fall so you can only stand up 7 times. You cannot stand up when you're already standing.

True

I was not born standing up. Am I gonna die?

yeah just imagine a toxic relationship. can't just say "never give up." in that case it's more like "give up on this bitch and find someone else"

what if I fall off the wheelchair? congress is waiting on the answer.

why so little?

what a routine to follow everyday. but I respect the grind 🙏

thanks mate

Fall seven times, check your fucking shoelaces before you take another step

Why not

This gets harder when you know that you married a wrong person and due to the fact you are a parent you will be stuck in this shit for many years.

It is like falling every day and having to mentally stand up every morning.

Fall seven times (and lay down once)

Stand up 8 times.

Got it.

This, thank you for posting!

That doesn’t mean you’re giving up. It just means you find a different way forward.

Proverbs 24 16 For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again, But the wicked stumble in time of calamity.

Me who just watched the downsizing ep rn