May 2nd, 2007
How do You Know When to Quit and When Not to Quit?
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I have written about Seth Godin’s soon-to-be-released book ‘The Dip’ before and I have also been following The Dip Blog with utmost fascination. Here are some of my favorite pieces from The Dip Blog -
Seven reasons you might fail to become the best in the world -
- You run out of time (and quit).
- You run out of money (and quit).
- You get scared (and quit).
- You’re not serious about it (and quit).
- You lose interest or enthusiasm or settle for being mediocre (and quit).
- You focus on the short term instead of the long (and quit when the short term gets too hard).
- You pick the wrong thing at which to be the best in the world (because you don’t have the talent).Even worse than quitting in the first six cases: not quitting. Settling. Sticking with it but not succeeding.
On hyper-competition -
