The Dip by Seth Godin | Book Summary and Review | Free Audiobook

Shown notes | PDF & Infographic "Never quit" is a lie. Winners quit all the time. Find out why and how. Read on your terms. Start a free trial of StoryShots: https://www.getstoryshots.com to get the PDF, infographic, extended ad-free audiobook and animated version of this summary of The Dip and 300,000 more bestselling books. Help us grow to create more amazing content for you! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review the StoryShots podcast now.  What should our next book be? Suggest and vote it up on the StoryShots app. Order the The Dip here or get the audiobook for free. StoryShots Book Summary and Review of The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin  About Seth Godin Seth Godin is an American author and former ‘dot com’ business executive. Seth Godin is the author of over 18 books. Free Prize Inside won Forbes’ Business Book of the Year in 2004, while The Dip was a Business Week and New York Times bestseller. In 2018, Godin was inducted into the American Marketing Association’s Marketing Hall of Fame. He also runs a blog named in 2009, by Time, as one of the 25 best blogs.  Introduction to The Dip The Dip builds on Seth Godin’s insights introduced on his blog titled ‘The four curves of want and get.’ Every new project starts out exciting and fun. But after this initial excitement, the project will get harder and less fun. Eventually, you will hit a low point in your pursuits. Seth Godin calls this challenging period a dip. This dip is one of three things: an opportunity, a cul-de-sac, or a cliff. You must quit the cul-de-sacs and cliffs so you can reallocate resources. You must persevere with all other pursuits, no matter how hard, so that you can become the best in your world. StoryShot #1: Be the Best You Can Be Our society obsesses over those who are number one. We give plaudits to the song or sports person that sits at the top of the charts. Similarly, we reward those employees that are performing the best. But the result of this obsession is that rewards are heavily skewed. Godin points out that, on average, first place generally gets ten times the winnings of whoever places tenth. This is Zipf’s law and is found in almost all fields. Zipf’s law suggests a non-linear relationship whereby rewards reduce exponentially. With limited time and opportunity to experiment, we intentionally narrow our choices to those at the top.  Therefore, you need to do everything in your power to become the best. If you are not going to be the best, then you should just quit. Crucially, Godin does not necessarily mean the best anybody could ever be. Instead, he explains you need to be the best for you, right now, based on what you believe and know. You need to be the best in your world.  StoryShot #2: The World Is Changing StoryShot #3: The Curves Curve 1: The Dip Curves 2 and 3: The Cul-de-Sac and the Cliff The Cul-de-Sac The Cliff StoryShot #4: The Seven Most Common Failures When Pursuing Success Related Books to The Dip Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin When by Daniel Pink The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant Fortitude by Dan Crenshaw Mindset by Carol Dweck Grit by Angela Duckworth Linchpin by Seth Godin Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins Make Your Bed by William McRaven 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do by Amy Morin Disclaimer: This is an unofficial summary and analysis. First published on 4/10/2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices