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The 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 Godin

In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.
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Distance Running Tired
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying Winning
Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
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Failure Fear Perseverance
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
Not changing your strategy merely because you’re used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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Starting Strategy Used
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.
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Connecting Interest Internet
Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.
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Fine Plans Waiting
If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!
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Marketing Success Waiting
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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Brands Nothing Stand
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
Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.
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Archive Goal People
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision

The 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.

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The 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.

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