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Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

Seth Godin

The 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.
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Acting Creative Creativity Enemy Generate
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 big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Average Settling Winning
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity
The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
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Elevator Purpose Solution Want
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Change Inspirational Inspiring
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Failure Innovation Option Provoking Thought
People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
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Differences People Waiting
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Believe People Way
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Elements Successful Two
The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.
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Connecting Interest Internet
Not changing your strategy merely because you’re used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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Starting Strategy Used
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility

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