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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

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work
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
Ideas that spread win.
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Ideas Ironic Winning
Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
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
Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Out Persons Work Wrecks
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.
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Believe Long May
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success
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
Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.
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Believe Facts Matters What
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Average Settling Winning
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
If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we’re going to do important work
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Creating Value Falling Love People
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise

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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