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Seth Godin
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July 10, 1960
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Forty years ago today was my first bout of speaking in front of an audience. (And as I remember it, I approached it as a fight, not an opportunity.) I was distracted, nervous and not particularly well received.
It was an epic fail. Friends and relatives agreed that I wasn't engaged or engaging, certainly a performance not to be repeated.
I ignored the part about not repeating it, but I definitely...
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Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
— published 2010 — 26 editions |
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Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
— published 2008 — 24 editions |
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Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
— published 2002 — 32 editions |
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The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit
— published 2007 |
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Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers
— published 1999 — 20 editions |
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All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World
— published 2005 — 19 editions |
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Poke the Box
— published 2011 — 18 editions |
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The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
— published 2012 — 10 editions |
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Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
— published 2006 — 16 editions |
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Unleashing the Ideavirus: Stop Marketing AT People! Turn Your Ideas into Epidemics by Helping Your Customers Do the Marketing thing for You.
by Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell — published 2000 — 17 editions |
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“The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.
Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.
The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job.
Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin.
The job is not the work.”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.
The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job.
Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin.
The job is not the work.”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.”
― Seth Godin
― Seth Godin
“Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.”
― Seth Godin
― Seth Godin
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