Seth Godin Quotes
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Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up.
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Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.
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You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.
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If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
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The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand 'it' if you haven't made any effort to understand 'you'? Because what you're really doing is establishing a living, electrical, vital, energetic connection between it and you. You're creating both of them, simultaneously. A lot like quantum physics.
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One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.
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Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.
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'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.
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Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.
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Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.
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Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.
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Your peer group are people with similar dreams, goals and worldviews. They are people who will push you in exchange for being pushed, who will raise the bar and tell you the truth. They're not in your business, but they're in your shoes. Finding a peer group and working with them, intentionally and on a regular schedule, might be the single biggest boost your career can experience.
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Without a specific reason for the consumer to behave, without a reward or benefit, the overwhelmed consumer will refuse.
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The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.
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If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.
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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.
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The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.
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I don’t think the shortage of artists has much to do with the innate ability to create or initiate. I think it has to do with believing that it’s possible and acceptable for you to do it. We’ve had these doors open wide for only a decade or so, and most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
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Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.
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If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.
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It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.