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.
SETH GODINYou don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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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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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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Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.
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Don’t create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
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Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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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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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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You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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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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The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.
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