Just as in the case of affiliate marketing, when the product owner decides to do something that I know for sure will not benefit me anymore, I will move on to another product.

But it is a nice argument! I like it

He found something but it was barely enough. Two years later he though “he had nothing going on ” and that the mine is dead and sold it to a guy, who hired a geologist to inspect the mine. Turns out, they only had to dig 2 meters to the left to find what’s know to be the biggest gold mine now days.

I don’t see why this can’t be applied to ur example with affiliate marketing. Someone tries over and over and gives up, when the answer might have been right there “2 meters” next to him.

Anyways my point wasn’t to start an argument just state a bit different opinion and general view

You missed the point so I am using a very crude example to stress it.

If your cat had died, there is no point keeping the carcass because you believed it had 9 lives and would one day resurrect.

My point is and always have been, Know when to give up and move on. Ford, in his essence KNEW he had something going, so he persevered, so did Edison (or was it someone else?).

I do not believe in blind perseverance. It is foolish. When you KNOW fully well that something will work, you persevere. When you realize fully well, after persevering for months or years, something will NEVER work or is never going to work the way you planned it, you move on to other more worthwhile things.

And you might have to keep moving 10,000 times and try 10,000 times before you land on that something. That is the kind of perseverance I am trying to stress.

Then later on, when you have succeeded, you will indeed feel stupid for not giving up on those ‘impossible dreams’ earlier.

Seriously when Ford invented the first internal combustion engine, after 5 years and wasting millions with the whole world saying it’s impossible to make such thing.. yeah I guess he was stubborn, just think about it when you driver your car now days.

And I guess 10,000 failed tries can be called stubborn yet your house benefits from the light at night. But hey those people where stubborn and HAD to limit their persistence.

I bet they feel pretty stupid now for not giving up earlier (*end of sarcasm*)

Once we realize that we are chasing a lost hope, it is time to give up and move on, especially so in the virtual world when things and circumstances changes ever so often.

When the tide has turn against us, there is no point wasting any more time swimming against it.