The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
SETH GODINSomewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.
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Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.
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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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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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The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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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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Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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We fail when we give up too soon.
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The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
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