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Art is the act of navigating without a map.

Seth Godin

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
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
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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Acceptance Business Perfect
So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
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Long Matter Tests
Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
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Business Inspirational Opportunity
Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
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Decision Mistakes Sweat
Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.
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Anyway Persons Yourself
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years
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
Not changing your strategy merely because you’re used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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Starting Strategy Used
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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Associates Reading Tests
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book 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
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video

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