We’re taught that winners never quit. But what if that belief is the very thing wearing you down?

For more than twenty years, Stacy Van Moroz has worked with people who stayed, pushed, and did everything they were told—and were still miserable. As a personal coach, counsellor, pastor, and distance runner, he believed the same message: grit is always a virtue, and quitting is always failure.

Then his own body forced him to walk away from the life he had built, changing everything he thought he knew about persistence.

Persistence Is Futile is about recognizing when determination has stopped serving you. Drawing on decades of coaching, personal loss, and a lifetime of running, Moroz challenges our obsession with never giving up and shows how persistence can quietly cost us our health, relationships, and sense of purpose.

This is not a permission slip to avoid hard things. It is a guide to knowing the difference between discomfort that helps you grow and persistence that keeps you trapped.

Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is stop, step back, and choose a different path.