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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

We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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Blogger Funny Thoughtful Worry
Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.
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Marketing Motivation People
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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Bases Firsts Matter
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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Believe Risk Want
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
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Art Being Huaman Impact Unique
Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Out Persons Work Wrecks
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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Better Done Offense Problem Tables
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you’re more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
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Environment Path Use
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
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Males Marketing Stuff
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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Competition Requirements Way

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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