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You are not your resume, you are your work.

Seth Godin

The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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Life Lunch Work
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
Your drudgery is another person’s delight. It’s only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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Delight Jobs Promise
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
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Art Being Huaman Impact Unique
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
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
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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Choices Pain Saying Yes
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Emotional Organization People
Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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Generosity Humor Perfection
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
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
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice

You are not your resume, you are your work.

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