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As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.

Seth Godin

Don’t create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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Kind Mass People
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
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
One bad review doesn’t ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
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Criticism Honor Ruins
Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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Goal Inspirational Support
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
We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Born Creative Littles
Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.
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Motivational Opportunity Winning
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
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
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
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
Just because the tide is out, doesn’t mean there is less water in the ocean.
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Clever Wisdom Wise
The best way to be missed when you’re gone is to stand for something when you’re here.
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Gone Something Stand Way
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
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Elements Successful Two

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