Seth Godin Quotes
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If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.
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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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You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Competence is the enemy of change!
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The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
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The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.
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Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.
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Competent people are the most resistant to change
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The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.
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Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that.
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As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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Fear is the workout we give ourselves imagining what will happen if things don't work out. . . . Worry is our effort to imagine every possible way to avoid the outcome that is causing us fear, and failing that, to survive the thing that we fear if it comes to fruition.
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I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.
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Great innovations, powerful interactions and real art are often produced by someone in a state of wonder. Looking around with stars in your eyes and amazement at the tools that are available to you can inspire generosity and creativity and connection
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The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.
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No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say, and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down.
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We notice what we choose to notice.
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If you think cat food is for cats, how come it doesn't come in mouse flavor?
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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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If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.
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Anything worth achieving in life has a dip
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Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are.
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Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.