Before you quit, ask if you’re walking toward something or running from something hard. Only one of those is brave.

Leaving can be the wisest thing you do or the most expensive, and the two look identical from outside. The difference is whether there is something on the other side or only relief. Escape tends to repeat itself, because the hard part usually reappears in the next place wearing different clothes.

Write down what you are moving toward in a single sentence, with no mention of what you are leaving. If the sentence comes easily, go. If it comes out as a list of complaints, stay a little longer and solve one of them first.