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Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.

Seth Godin

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Seth Godin
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: July 10
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It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.
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Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.
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Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.
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Care. Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy.
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The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility and build the connections you'll need later.
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Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.
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If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.
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If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.
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Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.
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