Life Advice That Doesn't Suck from Best Selling Author Mark Manson

Yeah.

Let me ask a follow-up, which is, okay, so you go down this path.

Let's say you're staying in restaurants for a second.

Your restaurant's going great.

Then all of a sudden, you know, the foot traffic isn't what it used to be.

Yeah.

I mean, sometimes there's little life cycles within businesses that are doing great.

Yeah.

You have to sort of reinvent yourself.

And, you know, Seth Godin might call it the dip.

Like some of us start something and then there's this dip and then you got to know.

So how do you know whether to weather that storm, you know, push through and keep making that pasta dish that, well, we used to sell the heck out of that.

And now it doesn't sell anymore.

Why aren't people eating that anymore? Versus like, okay, we need to reset the menu.

Right.

Or maybe it's the, we need to reupholster the chairs.

Like, how do you know how long to give that great idea?

I think the dip is a great point to bring up because I think sometimes what happens is those things flip.

I'll give an example from my career.

Please.

Blogging was... from 2007 to blogging is kind of dead today right like it's it's there are niche sub stacks and and people who are still doing it at a modest level but like the days of massive blogs that generate millions and millions of page views

yeah

they're kind of long gone and but they used to be

what started the whole influencer movement i mean absolutely if you were blogging back in you know, 2003 or four, I mean, you could amass a following.

Yeah.