“Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” — Vince Lombardi
That’s the lie that Seth addresses and dismantles in his short book, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When To Quit.
The book pretends to be about quitting. But really it’s about how you can become the best in the world.
And the way you do it is by quitting every dead-end situation that you’re pouring your life into, and focus that time/energy/joy/etc into finding and conquering a Dip.
From Seth:
Best-selling author Michael Crichton quit as he was on his way to a career at the top of his profession. When he gave up medicine, Crichton had already graduated from Harvard Medical School and done a postdoctorate fellowship study at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, guaranteeing him a lucrative career as a doctor or as a researcher. He traded it for the unpredictable life of an author.
Crichton had no stomach for cutting people open, and he decided he didn’t relish the future a medical career would bring him, regardless of how successful he might become at it. So he quit. Crichton saw that just because he had already gotten into Harvard, already earned a fellowship — already made it through the Dip — he didn’t have to spend the rest of his life doing something he didn’t enjoy in order to preserve his pride.
He stopped cold turkey and started over. If he can quit, can you?
Click here to check out a free 11-page preview of the book.
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