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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.

Seth Godin

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
Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Business Customer Loyal Motivational
You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Blogs Laugh Popular
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
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Art Change Courage
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
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.
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Different Experiences Goal Shoes
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.
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Believe Facts Matters What
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
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Failing Missions Plans
Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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Art Tragedy Wrecks
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
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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Changing Differences Life Matters

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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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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