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Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

Seth Godin

Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise
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
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
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
Your drudgery is another person’s delight. It’s only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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Delight Jobs Promise
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Average Loser Quitting
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Emotional Organization People
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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Believe Risk Want
As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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Matter might Misguide Perfection
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
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
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
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
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.
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Christian Mean Motivational

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