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Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.

Seth Godin

You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Blogs Laugh Popular
We know what you want to accomplish… The real question is, ‘what are you willing to push through the dip for?’ What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that’s what’s going to actually get done.
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Accomplish Done Question Real Stand Want
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Fear Inspirational Smart Successful
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.
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Believe Long May
Go ahead, do something impossible.
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Ahead Greatness Impossible Something
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision
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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Differences Making Miss Room Struggle
Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.
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Anyway Persons Yourself
Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.
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Fine Plans Waiting
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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Associates Reading Tests
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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Jobs Passion Peace
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe

Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.

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Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.

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