Peter Attia· MD
and that giving up is effectively it's this hopelessness it's this discounting of effort and that can be an appropriate thing let's say of course if the situation truly is hopeless it really is not good to keep devoting effort to it right if you if you keep flailing against an insuperable situation you're burning energy you could cause physical risk you're distracting yourself from other things withdrawing entering into a passive coping state is actually adaptive up to a point