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Seth Godin

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Elements Successful Two
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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Acting Creative Creativity Enemy Generate
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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Artist Attitude Inspirational Life
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
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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Inspire Marketing Successful
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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Attention Bigs Defend Time
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming
Ideas that spread win.
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Ideas Ironic Winning
One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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Differences Making Miss Room Struggle
Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.
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Marketing May Media

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