Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
SETH GODINThe purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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The person who fails the most wins.
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The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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The best creative solutions don’t come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented… They come from inventing new questions!
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Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
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Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
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Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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For most modern marketers, quantity isn’t the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
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As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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