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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.

Seth Godin

Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we’re going to do important work
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Creating Value Falling Love People
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
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
So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
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Long Matter Tests
Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.
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Christian Mean Motivational
The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
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Elevator Purpose Solution Want
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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Art Ideas Leadership
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Average Settling Winning
Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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Art Tragedy Wrecks
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
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
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
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision

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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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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