{"id":59,"date":"2010-12-24T10:29:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T10:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/successrefresh.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2010-12-24T10:29:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T10:29:31","slug":"why-winners-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/why-winners-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Winners Quit"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was playing basketball every day at both the high school and university levels, I often heard:<\/p>\n

“Winners never quit.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After stumbling across a journal entry I wrote a year ago, I now believe that to be a winner, you have to know when to quit.<\/p>\n

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So, in this video, I explain why I’m utterly convinced that quitters do succeed and why leaders who do will be of more value to the marketplace.<\/p>\n

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Resources<\/u><\/p>\n

How to Stop Planning a Mediocre Life<\/a> (contains the exercise I mentioned in the video)<\/p>\n

Seth Godin’s The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n

The Big Dip: Ten Questions With Seth Godin<\/a> (with Guy Kawasaki)<\/p>\n

Seth Godin’s Pushing Through the Dip Manifesto<\/a><\/em> (free resource)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was playing basketball every day at both the high school and university levels, I often heard: “Winners never quit.” After stumbling across a journal entry I wrote a year ago, I now believe that to be a winner, you have to know when to quit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-teller","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leesabarnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}