You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
SETH GODINGetting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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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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Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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We know what you want to accomplish… The real question is, ‘what are you willing to push through the dip for?’ What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that’s what’s going to actually get done.
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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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Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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