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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

The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified… and pick yourself.
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Giving Opportunity Permission Someone Waiting
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Average Settling Winning
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
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
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
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 myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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Life Lunch Work
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
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
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.
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Jobs Learning Light

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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