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Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

Seth Godin

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
Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.
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Archive Goal People
Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Art Hurt Learn Willingness
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
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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Decision Mistakes Sweat
The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
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Essence Marketing People
At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.
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Alternatives Needs Old Things
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
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Believe People Way
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
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified… and pick yourself.
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Giving Opportunity Permission Someone Waiting
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
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning

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