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 GODINThe person who fails the most wins.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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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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One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
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Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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In a race, sooner or later there’s a moment that separates the winner from those who don’t win. That instant is your chance, the moment you’ve been waiting for.
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One bad review doesn’t ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
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Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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If you’re not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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