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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

If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Becoming Firsts Ordinary
Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.
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Believe Long May
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Failure Innovation Option Provoking Thought
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
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
Your drudgery is another person’s delight. It’s only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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Delight Jobs Promise
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
Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
SETH GODIN

Art Tragedy Wrecks
Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
SETH GODIN

Business Inspirational Opportunity
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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Answers Creative Findings
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
SETH GODIN

Art People Responsibility

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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