Hey friends, it's Anne.

Find something deep down inside to be better at any cost.

America is famously a nation of strivers.

We get the message before we're out of training pants.

Become an iron man.

Make you proud.

When the going gets tough, look on the bright side.

Make lemonade out of lemons.

Strap on your big girl shoes and just do it.

Nobody will ever work as hard as out.

What a bunch of try-hards.

Today, on to the best of our knowledge, we're going to consider the exact opposite.

The wisdom of giving up and letting go is sometimes the strongest and most courageous thing you can do is walk away.

This hour, we'll talk about how.

Wisconsin Public Radiohead. We'll talk about how. It's to the best of our knowledge.

I'm And Strange Champs.

When was the last time you gave up on something or gave something up?

Maybe something big, like a job, or a small, like dinner.

Can you tell me about the first time that you had fasted and what that experience was like?

So I was a young man. It was a lifetime ago. I'm a New York City Jew, and I grew up with the concept of Yom Kippur and among Jews you're not supposed to eat

from sun up to sundown and you think about your sins over the past year. It's a big deal and that's

just one day. Producer Angelo Batista tracked down John Oakes, author of The Fast,

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