The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
SETH GODINRehearsing 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.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
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You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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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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I 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.
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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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Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Ideas that spread win.
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People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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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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More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.
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The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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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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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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Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Most 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.
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A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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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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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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You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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You don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
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If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.
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