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Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.

Seth Godin

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.
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Artist Creativity might
Soon is not as good as now.
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Good Management Now Soon Time
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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Matter might Misguide Perfection
Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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Generosity Humor Perfection
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book Ideas
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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Different Experiences Goal Shoes
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
The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
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Essence Marketing People
Ideas that spread win.
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Ideas Ironic Winning
The best creative solutions don’t come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented… They come from inventing new questions!
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Answers Creative Findings
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
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Lesson Making Mistakes
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People
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
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Art Change Courage
Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
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Almost Loving Important
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing
Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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Art Tragedy Wrecks
Are you copying others? People won’t pay extra for that. You won’t be followed for that.
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Copying Pay People
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
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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Ideas Tribute Two Years
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Elements Successful Two

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