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An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

Seth Godin

Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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Generosity Humor Perfection
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
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Boss People Safe
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
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
Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.
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Anyway Persons Yourself
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
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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Believe Risk Want
Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.
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Believe Facts Matters What
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
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe
As 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.
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Jester Needs People Roles
A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.
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Ideas Tribute Two Years
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
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
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Differences People Waiting
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

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

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