Seth Godin Quotes
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There's no map for being an artist.
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After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.
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Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.
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It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.
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Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
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Everyone will think it's stupid!" "Everyone says it's impossible." Guess what? Everyone works in the balloon factory and everyone is wrong.
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Great leaders don't try to please everyone. Great leaders don't water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be.
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You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.
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Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you're more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
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Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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The sooner we realize that the world has changed, the sooner we can accept it and make something of what we've got. Whining isn't a scalable solution.
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The biggest takeaway for anyone seeking to write is this: don't go looking for the way other authors do their work. You won't find many who are consistent enough to copy, and there are enough variations in approach that it's obvious that it's not like hitting home runs or swinging a golf club. There isn't a standard approach, there's only what works for you (and what doesn't).
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Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.
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The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.
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We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference.
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Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.
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People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.
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Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!
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In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.
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Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty. People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it. Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct.
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If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.
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Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.
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You can be right or you can have empathy. You can't do both.
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One theory says that if you treat people well, you're more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all the effort pay off. Do this, get that. Another one, which I prefer, is that you might consider treating people with kindness merely because you can. Regardless of what they choose to do in response, this is what you choose to do. Because you can.