The Cul-de-sac Vs The Dip - Deepstash
The Cul-de-sac Vs The Dip

The Cul-de-sac Vs The Dip

  • A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy (The Cul-de-sac). Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.(The dip)
  • Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea.
  • Simple: If you can’t make it through the Dip, don’t start.
  • If you want to be a superstar, then you need to find a field with a steep Dip—a barrier between those who try and those who succeed.

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The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep — into evil.

Winners are really just the best quitters. Winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt--until they commit to beating the right Dip.

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