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You are not your resume, you are your work.

Seth Godin

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
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable 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
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
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Jobs Learning Light
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.
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Class Curiosity Passion
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
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Business Fire People
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.
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Connecting Interest Internet
Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
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Long Positivity Strategy
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
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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