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After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.
The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven't given them anything else to care about.
But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.
Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.
More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.
Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.
The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.
Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.
If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.
One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.
Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.
I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.
The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.
You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.
As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.
You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.
It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.
I've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.
Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.
Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.
The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.
So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
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.
What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they’re being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.
The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.
Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.
That's your opportunity - to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.
It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.
If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.
Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.
Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.
Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.
If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.
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.
You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.
While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.
Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even).
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.
Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.
Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.
Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that.
Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
If you can influence the outcome, do the work. If you can't influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It's merely a distraction.
The problem with working with a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind.
It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.