I would recommend reading The Dip by Seth Godin. It is all about deciding when to quit and when to push through. My favorite line is "Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers"
'My favorite line is "Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers"'
Wow. That's inane. Yes, 'exceptional' is a fine goal, but there are many people doing pretty good by being pretty good.
Godin's books have struck me as little more than collections of pithy but ill-supported aphorisms, where the reader brings more to the book than is actually there. People find what they want to find, to "prove" what they want to believe.
(I'm sure there's some value in that, though by no means exceptional.)
I really wish I could convince someone to summarize that book for Squeezed Books. Without having actually picked up a copy, it looks like a book with some good points and lots of fluff.
I guess the fact that I can't, easily, is indicative of why that site isn't going anywhere, though:-/
Wow. That's inane. Yes, 'exceptional' is a fine goal, but there are many people doing pretty good by being pretty good.
Godin's books have struck me as little more than collections of pithy but ill-supported aphorisms, where the reader brings more to the book than is actually there. People find what they want to find, to "prove" what they want to believe.
(I'm sure there's some value in that, though by no means exceptional.)