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The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

Seth Godin

People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
SETH GODIN

Business Gigs Mind Own People
Don’t create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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Kind Mass People
Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
SETH GODIN

Jobs Learning Light
Teamwork’ is the word that bosses use when they actually mean ‘Do what I say’
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Leadership Mean Teamwork
Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Art Hurt Learn Willingness
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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Jobs Passion Peace
Your drudgery is another person’s delight. It’s only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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Delight Jobs Promise
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
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years
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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Boss People Safe
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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Believe Risk Want
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
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
SETH GODIN

Failure Innovation Option Provoking Thought

The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

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