# #191 | Face It Till You Make It: The Real Reason You Keep Giving Up

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Podcast: [Leman Tech Leadership Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/leman-tech-leadership-podcast-7045357)
Published: 2026-09-01T03:30:02+00:00
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▶︎ #191 | Face It Till You Make It: The Real Reason You Keep Giving Up In this solo episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska opens the final quarter of the year with a subject she's lived through personally and professionally, and hears from leaders and founders on a near-daily basis: giving up. Alex names the pattern she keeps running into in conversation after conversation: people who feel like failures, like imposters, like they simply can't stick to a habit or deliver what they promised themselves. She's honest that she's lived both sides of it: rock-solid consistency with her workouts and with writing her book, and quiet quitting on other goals she genuinely cared about. Rather than blaming generational laziness (a myth she pushes back on directly), Alex walks through the real reasons people quit: no accountability, no proximity to people already doing the thing, or an environment that quietly discourages the goal altogether. She closes with a simple, practical exercise: write down who you're trying to become, name the smallest possible next step, and reverse-engineer the discipline you already have in one area of your life into the one you keep abandoning. Mentioned in the episode: "From Code to People: The CQ Leadership Method That Transforms Technical Experts into Leaders Teams Actually Want to Work For": https://fromcodetopeople.lemanskills.com/ ✉︎ FOLLOW ME ON: ⤵︎ LinkedIn: @aleksandralemanska TikTok: @aleksandra_lemanska X: @lemanskills Startup Community Poznan: @startup-community-poznan-scp www.lemanskills.com Join Leadership Pulse! https://lemanskills.com/pulse/

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