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Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.

Seth Godin

Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Average Loser Quitting
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
How was your day?’ is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.
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Day Matter More Seems
For most modern marketers, quantity isn’t the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
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Changing Differences Life Matters
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
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
In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.
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Distance Running Tired
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
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision
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
Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with. And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes. And the changes are what you become. Change the outcome by changing your circle.
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Circles Dream Outcomes
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success
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
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
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book Ideas

Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.

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Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.

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