If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging
My homework was find an interesting motto and explain it. I chose for this one and now I'm trying to write what I think about it.
I like this phrase because it's truthful. I guess every person has felt something like this - when you're spending time on something, practising it day and night, but you aren't good at it yet. You're doing the same things and you hope that it will be successful, but it won't. The problem isn't resolved, just because it doesn't work. One should understand it and change his activities until find ones that will lead to success. But it isn't easy, it means that one needs to analyse what he was doing wrong and change it, admit his errors and start once again. Many of us are afraid of taking responsibility of our fails, instead of this we continue digging, again and again. It may pass because we are scared of doing the mistakes, because it's difficult for us to stop doing we are used to do. I think in this case we need to take a risk and do we're afraid of in order to understand whether it will work or not.
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Thank you Mike.
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Hi Elena,
I liked your essay. Just a heads up regarding this phrase - it actually means that what you are doing is making your situation worse, not just that you're not making any progress.
A typical use of this phrase is with regard to someone who in debt, and who then continues to borrow or spend more money, making his situation worse.
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