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When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.

Seth Godin

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.
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Distance Running Tired
Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
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Belief Believe Brilliant Happen
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Believe People Way
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
Don’t create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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Kind Mass People
Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.
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Marketing Motivation People
As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
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Long Please Want
Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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Goal Inspirational Support
The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.
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Connecting Interest Internet
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
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
Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.
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Marketing May Media
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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Believe Games Rules Thinking
The best way to be missed when you’re gone is to stand for something when you’re here.
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Gone Something Stand Way

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