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When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?

Seth Godin

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
SETH GODIN

Creating Value Falling Love People
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
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
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
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
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
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Out Persons Work Wrecks
Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
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Belief Believe Brilliant Happen
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
Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Art Hurt Learn Willingness
Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
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Business One Perfect Wise
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
Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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Generosity Humor Perfection
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

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