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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

Seth Godin

You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Blogs Laugh Popular
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.
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Bars Mediocrity Waiting
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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Character Mind Squares
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
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
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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Associates Reading Tests
So sure, start with a slogan. But don’t bother wasting any time on it if you’re merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
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Aim Bother Catchy
We know what you want to accomplish… The real question is, ‘what are you willing to push through the dip for?’ What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that’s what’s going to actually get done.
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Accomplish Done Question Real Stand Want
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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Art Pieces Wonder
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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Better Done Offense Problem Tables
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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Ideas Real World
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Failure Innovation Option Provoking Thought

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