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A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

Seth Godin

How was your day?’ is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.
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Day Matter More Seems
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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Art Pieces Wonder
The best creative solutions don’t come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented… They come from inventing new questions!
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Answers Creative Findings
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning
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
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
A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.
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Ideas Tribute Two Years
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
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
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
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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Art Ideas Leadership
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Believe People Way
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
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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Ideas Real World

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