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Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.

Seth Godin

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
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
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
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning
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
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
So sure, start with a slogan. But don’t bother wasting any time on it if you’re merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
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Aim Bother Catchy
You don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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More Time Needs
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
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity
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
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
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
There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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Art Pieces Wonder
Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.
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Fine Plans Waiting
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
Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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Dream Happens Way
If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we’re going to do important work
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Creating Value Falling Love People
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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Art Creative Passionate
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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Attention Bigs Defend Time
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
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

Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.

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