Force Quit

When a specific thought, worry, or emotion keeps looping, you intentionally stop feeding it.

Michelle Wahler and the Lesson She'd Give Her Younger Self

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Force Quit is what Michelle Wahler learned to do every time a new shiny opportunity started looping in her head. The Jesse test — 'are you on every butt in every class?' — was a literal mechanism for stopping that loop before it took over. Michelle had to actively choose to not pursue adjacent ideas, over and over, for more than two decades. That's not passive focus — that's repeatedly shutting down a process before it runs away.