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3.43 AVERAGE
3.43 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Some good points with little to none real advice. Yeah, I know I have to work hard to get the rewards. Yeah, I know I have to choose wisely where to focus. Telling people do not pursue paths that aren't worth is kind of naive advice, because you cannot know if a path is worth pursuing without walking on it first!!! Also, no, ppl aren't successful only because they worked hard, they were lucky too.
More like 3.5 stars. Super short book about what it takes to be successful. The concept of a dip to push through, and that all things we do (creating, businesses, etc) can start fun and the dip down into frustrations. Successful people push through the dip and others quit then. Successful people also quit things that aren’t good for them. He talks through how to understand decision making and when to quit in order to focus on your priorities.
This book could have benefitted from some bullet points, an outline, or even chapters to help break it up a little.
This book could have benefitted from some bullet points, an outline, or even chapters to help break it up a little.
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Good book. The Dip is ever present and good info on how to identify and differentiate it from a dead end opportunity.
6/10
It is so refreshing to read a self help book and walk away feeling like it was a good size. I swear the majority of self help books are 30% content and 70% regurgitated filler where you feel the same point could have been made in a third of the pages.
The Dip, being 80 pages, does well to keep most filler out. That being said, the overarching theme is a little obvious.
Overall, a decent book for a free afternoon
It is so refreshing to read a self help book and walk away feeling like it was a good size. I swear the majority of self help books are 30% content and 70% regurgitated filler where you feel the same point could have been made in a third of the pages.
The Dip, being 80 pages, does well to keep most filler out. That being said, the overarching theme is a little obvious.
Overall, a decent book for a free afternoon
This was ought to be a blog, not a book.
Nevertheless, the point is well made, be a strategic quitter.
Quit when you are in the 'cul-de-sac' but wait it out if you are in the Dip because it is in the Dip when everyone else will falter and you will earn the rights to passage.
Nevertheless, the point is well made, be a strategic quitter.
Quit when you are in the 'cul-de-sac' but wait it out if you are in the Dip because it is in the Dip when everyone else will falter and you will earn the rights to passage.
fast-paced
I like Seth Godin very much, and like the concept of the Dip as well. However, my one complaint about this book is Seth states that he'll help you identify the difference between a 'dip' and a 'dead end' but I don't think that he ever does.
I wonder if this book would have made a better (and shorter) blog. I found its points repetitive, often vague, and stretched out. Godin was good at asking questions, but not as good at making his points clearly. The graphs were arbitrary since they were just based on his opinions. And the ending trailed off. So I wasn't impressed with the writing quality. This book suffered, unfortunately, from poor structure and the strength of his arguments suffered as a result.
I did, however, like the overall suggestions about the need to quit when a job was at a dead end. Here and there the points he made were really quite excellent. I especially liked his points on how the dip is often a manufactured obstacle intended to weed out applicants or the non-committed. That is a perspective I lacked at various times in my life, but going forward I will keep it in mind. I just wish Godin had spent more time on the hows than the shoulds. More direction in how to recognize cliffs vs cul-de-sacs vs dips would have made the book more practical than theoretical.
I did, however, like the overall suggestions about the need to quit when a job was at a dead end. Here and there the points he made were really quite excellent. I especially liked his points on how the dip is often a manufactured obstacle intended to weed out applicants or the non-committed. That is a perspective I lacked at various times in my life, but going forward I will keep it in mind. I just wish Godin had spent more time on the hows than the shoulds. More direction in how to recognize cliffs vs cul-de-sacs vs dips would have made the book more practical than theoretical.