Here are 5 things I learned reading, The Dip, By: Seth Godin (Amazon):

1. Winners quit. They just quit the right things.

2. “The problem with infinity is that there’s too much of it.”

3. The Dip weeds people out, and that creates scarcity, and by that, value.

4. Zipf’s law says that the biggest/most popular usually win by a large margin.

5. “Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.”

Here are 5 things I learned reading, Bird By Bird, By: Anne Lamott (Amazon).

1. For a writer, writing should be the goal, not getting published.

2. Writing well is about telling the truth.

3. You should stop being a perfectionist in your writing.

4. Dying people can teach you so many things.

5. We all need to give up control of our lives.