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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

Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work
The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.
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Ideas Tribute Two Years
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
The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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Character Mind Squares
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
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
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Born Creative Littles
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
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Art Change Courage
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Average Settling Winning
The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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Insightful Inspiring Marketing
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing

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