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Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.

Seth Godin

As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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Blogger Funny Thoughtful Worry
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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Boss People Safe
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
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
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
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
When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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Ideas Real World
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
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Business Fire People
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
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
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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Life Lunch Work
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

Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.

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Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.

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