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When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?

Seth Godin

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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Different Experiences Goal Shoes
People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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Business Gigs Mind Own People
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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Jobs Passion Peace
Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
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Jobs Learning Light
Teamwork’ is the word that bosses use when they actually mean ‘Do what I say’
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Leadership Mean Teamwork
In a race, sooner or later there’s a moment that separates the winner from those who don’t win. That instant is your chance, the moment you’ve been waiting for.
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Motivational Sports Winning
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
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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Bases Firsts Matter
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
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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Long Matter Tests
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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Generosity Humor Perfection
The less people know, the more they yell.
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Communication Knows People
As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
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Long Please Want
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise

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