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InspireME: THE DIP: The Little BookThat Teaches You When To Quit (And When To Stick).

Najib
3 min readJan 14, 2023

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Sometimes you grind through a job or a relationship that might work out. Living your life like a zombie from one day to another, waiting for a fairy to show up with that magic wand. Or you hear stories of overnight successes and accidental life-changing adventures from some deranged motivational speaker who’s relating these from anonymous sources and think the following headlines would be yours.

Well, life doesn’t really work like that and in this nice little book, Seth Godin takes us through some pretty straightforward scenarios and lets us introspect whether it’s time for us to quit doing something or else to continue the grit to achieve our goals.

Seth Godin proves that winners are really just the best quitters. Godin shows that winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt — until they commit to beating the right Dip. Everyone, from top athletes to CEOs to Artists goes through a period of the iconic DIP. Dips create scarcity because of quitters and scarcity creates demand and the ones who fight out this dip are the ones who end up becoming the best in the world.

Godin challenges us to think like a champion and to have the vision to become the best in the world and in case there are hurdles then either it’s a culdesac, a brick wall or a…

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Najib
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Aspiring Author striving for 9 to 5 Independence. Writes about the challenges of daily life. Loves hearing from fellow writers regarding their journeys….

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