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The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this book.Seth Godin wrote a book on the subject https://www.amazon.com/Dip-Little-Book-Teaches-Stick/dp/1591...
⬐ karimdagHave you read this book? If so, how good is it?⬐ wojt_euI've read a couple of Seth's books couple years ago. I felt they are all like a great blog posts inflated to size a short book. But maybe going on about one idea for two hundred pages makes some sense, it made it really sink in for me.⬐ tomhowardThe most important book I've ever read.Thanks to having read that book before I started my startup, that startup has now become two thriving companies in a highly challenging market, and I've figured out some methods of overcoming major personal challenges, that could turn out to be hugely valuable to many other people, once I'm ready share them.
I'm still working through my own dip, but had I not read that book I'd have quit very early on and would likely be living a pretty mundane existence.
It's a short book, but an invaluable one.
I definitely get what you're saying. Thank you, I think reading is going to help me the most, I'll check out those resources and here's links for anyone else:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1936891026
Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way by Steven Pressfield et al. Link: http://amzn.com/1936891379
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin Link: http://amzn.com/1591841666
There's a surprisingly good book by Seth Godin (sorry!) called The Dip about this dilemma.http://www.amazon.com/Dip-Little-Book-Teaches-Stick/dp/15918...
The key thing, he says, about successful people is they quickly and accurately either choose to abandon something very very fast, or to pursue it through the depressing dip to sucess.
⬐ SideburnsOfDoomHm. Does he prove that unsuccessful people didn't do that? If not, then it's just the usual selection bias.
Seth Godin's The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) [1] is an oft-recommended resource on the topic, though I didn't find it particularly helpful the last time I was in a similar situation.
Seth Godin wrote a great book on this exact question. How to know when you should push through the dip and when you should decide to quit. It's an insightful read:http://www.amazon.com/Dip-Little-Book-Teaches-Stick/dp/15918...
Sorry if this has been mentioned, but I haven't had the chance or time to read all the comments but...It sounds like you are quitting when you hit The Diphttp://www.amazon.com/Dip-Little-Book-Teaches-Stick/dp/15918...
Book recommendation: the dip (http://www.amazon.com/Dip-Little-Book-Teaches-Stick/dp/15918...)