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The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing . But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are. For now.

Seth Godin

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Seth Godin
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: July 10
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Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are.
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It's rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can't occupy the same space, and if your anger moves in, generosity and creativity often move out. It's difficult to use revenge or animus to fuel great work.
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If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.
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What we most need in our lives, though, is something worth doing, worth it because we care.
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In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.
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As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.
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I see things differently when I'm focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.
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The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.
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Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.
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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 job isn't to catch up to the status quo the job is to invent the status quo.
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Two different things: A crowd is a tribe without a leader. A crowd is a tribe without communication. Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations assemble the tribe.
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But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.
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Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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