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Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.

Seth Godin

If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
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
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
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
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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Elevator Purpose Solution Want
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
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Business Inspirational Opportunity
The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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Acting Creative Creativity Enemy Generate
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Business Entrepreneur People
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
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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