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Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.

Seth Godin

Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Decided Done World
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
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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Long Positivity Strategy
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming
Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
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Almost Loving Important
Are you copying others? People won’t pay extra for that. You won’t be followed for that.
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Copying Pay People
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Average Settling Winning
Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
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Brave Needs People
You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Blogs Laugh Popular
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
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
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
You don’t make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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Art Life Motivational
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
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Belief Believe Brilliant Happen

Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.

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Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.

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