The, Rules of Life, 4th Edition

RULE 15

It’s OK to give up

You know how you sometimes hear stories about people who have failed their driving test 35 times? Much as you admire their persistence, don’t you sometimes wonder why they don’t just give up? These are clearly people who just aren’t cut out to drive big, heavy, dangerous lumps of machinery around streets full of children, old people, dogs and lamp posts. Even if they do finally pass, there’s a feeling that it’s probably a fluke, and you probably still wouldn’t want to be a passenger on their next trip.

Actually, if these people held their hands up (as some do) and said, ‘You know what? This isn’t me. I’m going to get a bicycle and a bus season ticket’, I would applaud their ability to see what was staring them in ...