If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
SETH GODINIf you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
SETH GODINYou are not your resume, you are your work.
SETH GODINYou don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.
SETH GODINArt is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
SETH GODINTwo elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
SETH GODINBefore 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.
SETH GODINDebt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
SETH GODINIf failure is not an option, then neither is success.
SETH GODINBe bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
SETH GODINAnyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
SETH GODINYou 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.
SETH GODINThere’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
SETH GODINJust about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
SETH GODINI don’t think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.
SETH GODINAs soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
SETH GODINMost people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
SETH GODIN