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Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

Seth Godin

As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
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
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
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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Character Mind Squares
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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Competition Requirements Way
Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
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Lesson Making Mistakes
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
If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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Believe Faults Ideas
Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.
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Christian Mean Motivational
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Failure Innovation Option Provoking Thought
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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Better Done Offense Problem Tables
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

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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