Most people quit ambitious projects during the hard middle stretch, what Seth Godin calls the dip. Quitting after two years wastes time and defeats the point of building a life you actually want. The real test is deciding to push through when the work gets harder than you expected.
it should, the goal should be to fund and fit the life that you want to be living. And it's easy to get caught up in the excitement of, I just, you know, I want to do my thing. And then at some point you hit what Seth Godin calls the dip. And we address this in the book, you know, it's going to get hard. And then it comes down to, are you going to persevere? Are you going to quit? Well, if you quit after 2 years of trying just because it's not as easy as you thought it would be. That's— you just wasted 2 years of your life.
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