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As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

Seth Godin

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
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
Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.
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Average Business Customers
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming
Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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Blogger Funny Thoughtful Worry
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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Insightful Inspiring Marketing
Ideas that spread win.
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Ideas Ironic Winning
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
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Boss People Safe
There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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Dream Happens Way
Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
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Choices Pain Saying Yes
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
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating

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