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We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.

Seth Godin

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
As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
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Long Please Want
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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Bases Firsts Matter
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
One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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Differences Making Miss Room Struggle
Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
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Failure Fear Perseverance
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
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
The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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Acting Creative Creativity Enemy Generate
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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Matter might Misguide Perfection
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work
Ideas that spread win.
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Ideas Ironic Winning

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