- THE DIP BY SETH GODIN. TO THROW IN THE TOWEL OR NOT HOW TO
- THE DIP BY SETH GODIN. TO THROW IN THE TOWEL OR NOT FULL
There’ve been times where I’ve wanted to throw in the towel even when I’m just a session away from finishing a painting! For me, it’s usually touch and go until the very end. Sometimes you turn a corner quickly, and the painting starts to look good. And if you keep going, you develop even more grit. It’s tempting to give up when you’re in the ugly middle stage of a painting.īut if you have grit, you keep going. But as you move forward, you are bound to enter an ugly middle stage in which your painting is not looking so hot and you don’t know what you’re doing and you have no idea how you’re going to get out alive.
THE DIP BY SETH GODIN. TO THROW IN THE TOWEL OR NOT FULL
When you tone the canvas and map the composition, you’re full of hope and optimism. The bad days usually occur during the ugly “middles.” Even if I didn’t want to admit that on the bad days. It’s possible I bought a thousand dollars’ worth of art supplies just to avoid writing.” I don’t even know why I’m here or how I got here.
THE DIP BY SETH GODIN. TO THROW IN THE TOWEL OR NOT HOW TO
“The problem is, I don’t really CARE about knowing how to paint. “Yeah, I’ve always painted, but so what? I don’t have to attain mastery.
So, I was revising my stance on painting every other day. When you’re learning a new skill and you’re in the Dip, you tell yourself, “Maybe I don’t really care about this after all. I was on an emotional rollercoaster and I wanted off.
Just like staying married sounds easy, but sometimes it’s not.ĭuring the past year, while taking painting classes with a group of people online, I privately announced to myself, at least 1000 times, that I was going to quit. So how do you get through the Dip? It’s like Jeff Bridges’ response to people who want to know how to stay married for as long as he and his wife have: “Don’t get divorced.” The way to make it through the Dip is to not give up. Seth Godin says before you commit to learning something new, you have to decide whether you’re willing to get through “the Dip.” The Dip is the most difficult part of the journey, in which you’ll be tempted to give up. I think the secret to enjoying the second half of life is learning new things.
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