{"id":315017,"date":"2012-05-28T12:55:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T10:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/seth-godin-dancing-on-the-edge-of-finished\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:10:51","slug":"seth-godin-dancing-on-the-edge-of-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/seth-godin-dancing-on-the-edge-of-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Godin: Dancing on the edge of finished"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\u2019re never finished, and that\u2019s okay. It\u2019s a dance, not an endless grind.<\/p>\n<cite>\u2014 Seth Godin, <a href=\"https:\/\/seths.blog\/2012\/05\/dancing-on-the-edge-of-finished\/\">\u201cDancing on the edge of finished\u201d<\/a>, Seth\u2019s Blog, 28 May 2012.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The paragraph is from a short post on Seth Godin\u2019s blog in May 2012. We kept it because it describes a feeling everyone who works for themselves knows: nothing is ever quite finished. Godin\u2019s answer is to live with that rather than fight it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019re never finished, and that\u2019s okay. It\u2019s a dance, not an endless grind. \u2014 Seth Godin, \u201cDancing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1092,747],"tags":[1231,902,2011],"class_list":["post-315017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-productivity","category-quotes","tag-productivity","tag-quotes-en","tag-seth-godin","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phlOHV-1jWV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315055,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315017\/revisions\/315055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}