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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
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
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
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
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
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you’re more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
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Environment Path Use
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
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
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
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
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 I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning

You are not your resume, you are your work.

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