Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you’re more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
SETH GODINThe 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.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.
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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
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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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At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.
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We fail when we give up too soon.
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