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title: "Seth Godin: Dancing on the edge of finished"
author: "Ellen Bauer"
date: 2012-05-28
lang: en
source: https://elmastudio.de/en/seth-godin-dancing-on-the-edge-of-finished/
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# Seth Godin: Dancing on the edge of finished

> For the marketer, the freelancer and the entrepreneur, the challenge is to level set, to be comfortable with the undone, with the cycle of never-ending. We were trained to finish our homework, our peas and our chores. Today, we’re never finished, and that’s okay. It’s a dance, not an endless grind.
>
> *— Seth Godin, [“Dancing on the edge of finished”](https://seths.blog/2012/05/dancing-on-the-edge-of-finished/), Seth’s Blog, 28 May 2012.*

The paragraph is from a short post on Seth Godin’s blog in May 2012. We kept it because it describes a feeling everyone who works for themselves knows: nothing is ever quite finished. Godin’s answer is to live with that rather than fight it.