Seth Godin Quotes
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No one is as smart as all of us.
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The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.
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I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.
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Or, if I take that same auditorium and I make it much bigger and put more space between seats, it'll be quieter because it's much harder when you're not in physical contact with people to spread a virus from person-to-person, right? There are all sorts of patterns that we see in epidemiology that help us understand why something spreads.
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Instead of working hard to keep their share of a shrinking pie, or working even harder to make sure the industry stays as is, I think the most essential thing legacy book industry players can do is set up independent ventures with great people and little interference and work really hard to put themselves out of business by starting at the bottom, not by reinforcing the top.
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In fact, most of the time, people with similar information, similar beliefs and similar apparent choices will choose similar actions. So if you want to know why someone does what they do, start with what they know, what they believe and where they came from. Dismissing actions we don't admire merely because we don't care enough to have empathy is rarely going to help us make the change we seek. It doesn't help us understand, and it creates a gulf that drives us apart.
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Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
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Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want
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Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you've been holding back from... and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go.
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So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
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The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.
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I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.
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If you measure it, it will improve.
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Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.
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The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.
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The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.
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Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.
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One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you're in the room... Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you're not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.
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Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.
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Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.
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You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.