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.
SETH GODINAs our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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I don’t think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.
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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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Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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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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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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