{"id":317,"date":"2010-06-25T15:10:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T20:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2010-06-25T15:10:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T20:10:25","slug":"more-awesome-goal-1-06-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/25\/more-awesome-goal-1-06-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"More Awesome: Goal 1.06 Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost the end of June and I almost forgot to pick a book to read.\u00c2\u00a0 I have so many books I want to read, sometimes it&#8217;s super hard to actually pick one and read.\u00c2\u00a0 Which actually corresponds with the book I did select for June, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dip-Little-Book-Teaches-Stick\/dp\/1591841666\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1277495881&amp;sr=8-1\">The Dip<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sethgodin.com\/sg\/\">Seth Godin<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I love Seth Godin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/\">blog<\/a> and was inspired to pick one of his books to read.<\/p>\n<p>The subtitle for The Dip is &#8220;A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)&#8221; and that&#8217;s exactly what it does.  It reminds you that quitting isn&#8217;t a bad thing.  It&#8217;s not the same as failing.  In fact, quitting at the right time is one of the best things you can do.\u00c2\u00a0 Successfully quitting is a strategic decision, not something you talk yourself into.\u00c2\u00a0 The Dip also nicely reinforced the idea of ignoring sunk costs, with a small story about Michael Crichton.<\/p>\n<p>The Dip is a short book, but a very interesting read.\u00c2\u00a0 I can see myself rereading it when I need a reminder about quitting and it&#8217;s value!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in learning more about The Dip, there&#8217;s a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squidoo.com\/thedipbook\">squidoo page<\/a> on it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost the end of June and I almost forgot to pick a book to read.\u00c2\u00a0 I have so many<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/25\/more-awesome-goal-1-06-complete\/\" title=\"Read More Awesome: Goal 1.06 Complete\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[18,57,62],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}