Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
SETH GODINDebt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
SETH GODINChange isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
SETH GODINHow was your day?’ is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.
SETH GODINFire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
SETH GODINAn artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
SETH GODINThe first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
SETH GODINI define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
SETH GODINThere’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
SETH GODINIf failure is not an option, then neither is success.
SETH GODINThe enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
SETH GODINThe key to success is to find a way to stand out–to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
SETH GODINGratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
SETH GODINAre you copying others? People won’t pay extra for that. You won’t be followed for that.
SETH GODINThe myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
SETH GODINEmpathy 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.
SETH GODINLeadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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