Why You Should Give Up Already I want to expose a secret! Something true that can impact you and many you interact with. This secret has been floating around and we are often inspired when we see others believing and acting on it. An example is Florence Chadwick, an incredible swimmer who set records for swimming the English Channel 4 times and other ocean swims. In 1952, she attempted to swim the 26 miles between Catalina Island and the California Coast. As she began, she was flanked by small boats that watched for sharks and were prepared to help her if she got hurt or grew tired. After about 15 hours, a thick fog set in. Florence began to doubt her ability, and she told her mother, who was in one of the boats, that she didn’t think she could make it. She swam for another hour before giving up and asking to be pulled out, unable to see the coastline due to the fog. As she sat in the boat, she found out she had stopped swimming just o...