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Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.

Seth Godin

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
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Long Positivity Strategy
Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.
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Motivational Opportunity Winning
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
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Art Business Creativity
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
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
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Brave Needs People
A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.
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Ideas Tribute Two Years
Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Decided Done World
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
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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Emotional Organization People
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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Choices Pain Saying Yes
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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Character Mind Squares
Are you copying others? People won’t pay extra for that. You won’t be followed for that.
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Copying Pay People
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States

Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.

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