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Innovation is significant positive change.
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Innovation
Positive Change
Significant
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Good public speaking is based on good private thinking
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Public Speaking
Thinking
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The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.
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Clarity
Code
Creativity
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Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.
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The way you find the answers to your problems will be unique to you.
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Answers
Unique
Way
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It's rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say.
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Educational
People
Trying
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This is one big problem with working remotely: no one believes you have a job at all.
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Jobs
Believe
Problem
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Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution.
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Challenges
Innovation
Problem
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If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.
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Firsts
Perfection
Window
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It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.
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Block
People
Writing
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Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.
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Differences
Hallmark
Praise
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Most people doubt online meeting scan work, but they somehow overlook that most in person meetings don't work either.
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Doubt
Online
People
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Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.
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Fun
Ideas
Together
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My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.
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Confidence
Smile
Goal
Perfection
Wells
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It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.
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Fun
Useless
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It's safe to assume that no matter where you stand, someone would be happy to be in your shoes, just as you'd be happy to be in someone else's.
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Safe
Shoes
Would Be
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I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all three.
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Perfect
Trying
Want
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Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult or creative.
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Creative
Failing
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History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success.
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Creativity
Giving
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People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.
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Knowing
Obvious Things
People
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Staying curious and open is what makes growth possible, and it requires practice to maintain that mindset. To keep learning, we have to avoid the temptation to slide into narrow, safe views of what we do.
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Temptation
Views
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No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed pneumonia after giving the longest inaugural address in U.S. history. The easy lesson from his story: keep it short, or you might die.
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Giving
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Innovative ideas are rarely rejected on their merits; they’re rejected because of how they make people feel. If you forget people’s concerns and feelings when you present an innovation, or neglect to understand their perspectives in your design, you’re setting yourself up to fail.
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There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want to write, even though they find crafting sentences and paragraphs unpleasant. They hope there is a way to write without writing. I can tell you with certainty there isn’t one.
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Thinking
Writing
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The temptation many creative people I know have is to strive for popularity. To make, do, and say things that other people like in the hopes of pleasing them. This motivation is nice. And sometimes the end result is good. But often what happens in trying so hard to please other people, especially many other people, the result is mediocre.
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When I'm the speaker, I know that special moment [just before speaking] is the only time I will have the entire audience's full attention. Unless an alien spaceship crash-lands on stage midway through the talk, the silence before I begin is the most powerful moment I have. What defines how well I'll do starts with how I use the power of that moment.
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It's only through effort that we learn what an idea actually is, and if our passion for it will last or fade. There is no shame in failure - all makers fail. But it's hard to respect someone who never tries, even once, to do something good that's always on their mind. If you're worried about how good your idea is, you're worrying about the wrong thing.
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Ideas
Passion
Worry
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All great tasks test our motivation. It's easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like most things taken home from bars, new challenges arise the next day. It's in the morning light when work begins, and grand ideas (or barroom conquests) lose their luster. To do interesting things requires work and it's no surprise we abandon demanding passions for simpler, easier, more predictable things.
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Morning
Motivation
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People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their use of time and it can shift away from the ordinary work that’s easy to justify, in favor of the more ethereal, deeper things that are harder to justify. They protect their time from trivia and idiocy; these people are time rich. They provide themselves with a surplus of time. They might seem to idle, or relax more often than the rest, but that just might be a sign of their mastery, not their incompetence.
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For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don't have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while we're satisfied watching sitcom reruns? Our popular answers have been unconvincing, enabling misleading, fantasy-laden myths to grow strong.
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Kings
Song
Strong
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