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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.

Seth Godin

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years
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 you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
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
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise
There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Fear Inspirational Smart Successful
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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Art Creative Passionate
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
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we’re going to do important work
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Creating Value Falling Love People
You are not your resume, you are your work.
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Business Inspiring Motivational
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Average Settling Winning
In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.
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Distance Running Tired
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself

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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