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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 win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
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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Art Tragedy Wrecks
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.
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Bars Mediocrity Waiting
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
The best way to be missed when you’re gone is to stand for something when you’re here.
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Gone Something Stand Way
Your drudgery is another person’s delight. It’s only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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Delight Jobs Promise
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Change Inspirational Inspiring
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success
Ideas that spread win.
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Ideas Ironic Winning
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
The person who fails the most wins.
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Failing Persons Winning
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!
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Marketing Success Waiting
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology

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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