Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
SETH GODINSeek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
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Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Go ahead, do something impossible.
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You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Don’t create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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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 enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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