Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
SETH GODINHow dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
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Art is a personal act of courage.
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For most modern marketers, quantity isn’t the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
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The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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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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Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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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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As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Playing safe is very risky.
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Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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