I had a chance to read a few books on my honeymoon (French Polynesia–I had 
no idea places that picturesque actually existed, it was incredible), so I thought I’d review them since a couple were pretty good and definitely worth a read. One that I’d recommend is The Dip by Seth Godin (he usually writes great bite-sized content), which is a nice short read but also very thought-provoking and it was giving me deja vu the entire time I was reading it.
The Dip is about difficulties in achieving goals, and what to do when you hit them, as you inevitably will. When to quit when you hit a road bump, and when to keep on plugging along. As I read it I repeatedly experienced deja vu as I remembered various difficulties I ran into while starting up Latigent. There are definitely smart times to quit, and not-so-smart times to quit, and it’s pretty important to know which is which.
The Dip provides some nice mental tools to help sort out which projects deserve your energy, which you need to abandon, and which need to be refocused. For people like me who seem to juggle hundreds of balls at any one time, that’s a pretty critical thing to get right, because inevitably SOMEthing falls through the cracks. At only 96 pages it’s a quick read, and I’ll probably pull it out to re-read it from time to time just to make sure I’m looking at the big picture and spending my time and energy wisely.
