The Dip by Seth Godin – Review

Seth says in The Dip that what he’s sharing isn’t anything but the simple and obvious truth. There’s no pretense to a miracle answer, insider secrets, or get success tips. Seth just tells us how come it matters when you are in the dip and when to know you’re not.

Lots of reviewers are critical of this book for the very reason that it’s simple and general in nature. I believe some of them are missing the point.

It’s not about hard work paying off. it’s about giving up bad tactics, bad strategies and bad beliefs. Quitting them in essence. Giving up the things that don’t work and won’t work for you. Give up old and ingrained habits. Give up being part of 25 hobbies or scattering yourself over dozens of attempts at things.

For me this book really describes the last year of my life at work. I’ve been in the dip again and didn’t even realize it had a name. For me it was about not just putting in my time, which is never that simple to get ahead, but deciding to ‘lean into the dip’. While others were choosing to resign themselves to misery and drudgery, I chose to do some of my best work ever as a programmer and analyst. Now while others have come through, still miserable and nothing changed for them, I’m taking over planning their work and managing contractors. Oh well for them.

I’m endorsing this book because I’ve lived it several times in my life already. It’s really simple. Like Yodda, ‘do or do not’. Buy The Dip.

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