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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.

Seth Godin

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
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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Attention Bigs Defend Time
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
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
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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Inspire Marketing Successful
One bad review doesn’t ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
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Criticism Honor Ruins
Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.
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Class Curiosity Passion
Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you’re more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
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Environment Path Use
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
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Elevator Purpose Solution Want
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.
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Alternatives Needs Old Things
The less people know, the more they yell.
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Communication Knows People
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
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
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video

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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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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