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

Seth Godin

The less people know, the more they yell.
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Communication Knows People
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
Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.
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Artist Attitude Inspirational Life
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success
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
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
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
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise
Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.
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Fine Plans Waiting
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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Art Pieces Wonder
Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
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Failure Fear Perseverance
Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
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
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
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
Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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Blogger Funny Thoughtful Worry
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
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
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
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
The key to success is to find a way to stand out–to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
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Cows Keys Purple
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision
You don’t make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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Art Life Motivational
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

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

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