Seth Godin Quotes
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If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.
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It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave.
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Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much. Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful. And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless.
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The goal has never been to always succeed. The goal is to be allowed to keep initiating.
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Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.
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Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.
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Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.
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Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage.
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I feel like I'm treating people as I'd like to be treated.
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Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it.
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I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.
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Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.
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If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one.
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The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.
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Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.
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Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.
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Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.
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Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.
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Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.