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Seth Godin: The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) (EBook, 2007, Portfolio) 3 stars

The old saying is wrong--winners do quit, and quitters do win.

Every new project (or …

Take a lesson from this book: quit reading this book before you even start it

1 star

The Bad

  • "Capitalist drivel" (another reviewer said this and I wholeheartedly agree)
  • Assumes that if you want to do something, you must want to be the best at it and not to just have fun with it (AKA capitalist drivel)
  • Mostly geared towards businesses and entrepreneurs (AKA capitalist drivel)
  • The same concept is repeated throughout the entire thing (AKA capitalist driven drivel, just trying to fill out enough books to get published when this could have easily been a blog post or an article)

The Meh

  • Godin correctly points out that you should quit things that won't bear any fruit (if bearing fruit is your intention)
  • Pursuing any venture will have a dip where things will be very hard before it gets easier

The Good

  • The book only took probably one hour to read whenever I had like five minutes to spare