Just finished the book Choose Yourself by James Altucher - Change up, don't give up.

CHANGE UP, DON’T GIVE UP. 

I was the guy who “gave up” on the thirty-ninth try when trying to sell a novel I had written.   

Sometimes the odds are just too stacked against you. Maybe it would’ve worked on the fortieth try. I don’t know. But I’m glad I gave up; I “changed up” instead. Rather than focusing on fiction as the only creative medium, I started looking at both TV and the brand-new World Wide Web as creative media. Which led to a job at HBO. Which led to my first company focusing on building content-heavy websites for entertainment companies.

I didn’t give up on being creative. I expanded the power of my creativity by not limiting myself to one domain, and vowing to return to book-writing later, ultimately to fiction-writing. Maybe I’ll do it, maybe I won’t. But the “Change Up” certainly released me creatively, and I was able to use it to build both my financial life and creative life. We’ll see if it ever comes full circle.

Choose Yourself! by James Altucher  (Just finished this book - its great, make sure you get it.)