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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.

Seth Godin

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
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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Alternatives Needs Old Things
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.
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Environment Path Use
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise
Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
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Business One Perfect Wise
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity
Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.
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Class Curiosity Passion
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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Associates Reading Tests
Just because the tide is out, doesn’t mean there is less water in the ocean.
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Clever Wisdom Wise
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Average Loser Quitting
So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
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Long Matter Tests
Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
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Long Positivity Strategy

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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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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