About Seth Godin: Seth Godin is an American author, entrepreneur, marketer, and public speaker.
Winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt
No one knows more about the way you think than you do.
How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?” - Seth Godin, sethgodin.com
This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.
The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.
Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking. It builds credibility. It is a living engine of marketing and idea spreading, working every day to deliver your message with authority. You should writ...
Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.
Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending the library-as-warehouse concept, as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, conne...
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
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.
Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.
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 dif...
Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.
Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done. That would be you.
If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.
The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to...
How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the outside world values us.
A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck. So the question is: Have you ever done that?
