I love to read Seth Godin’s blog. He has insights like no other. What is really fun is to take some of his lines out of his blog and put them up as quotes. Here are some of my favorites…
“Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don’t live that life.
It doesn’t take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century.
Everything doesn’t depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.”
~ Seth Godin
“In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that’s never been previously contemplated.
But when we’re discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what’s new.”
~ Seth Godin
“No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?”
~ Seth Godin
But What Do People Really Think?
“Somewhere, right this very moment, someone is having more fun than you.
Making more money than you.
Doing something more important, with better friends, and a happier ending, than you. Or possibly just better at Words with Friends than you are.
You’re missing out.”
~ Seth Godin
“Most people, most of the time, aren’t creative, generous or willing to stand up and contribute worthwhile work to the community. At least not the contributions you’re hoping for.
To dismiss the crowd is a huge mistake, though.
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.”
~ Seth Godin
“Your history of work is as important as the work you’ll do tomorrow.”
~ Seth Godin
“It’s almost impossible to have fun playing ping pong with someone who doesn’t care, won’t try or isn’t any good.”
~ Seth Godin
“We’re going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow—investing now, when it’s difficult, is the single best moment.”
~ Seth Godin
“Micro trends matter more than macro ones, but most of all, people matter. Individual human beings with names and wants and interests.”
~ Seth Godin
“You have permission to create, to speak up, and stand up.
You have permission to be generous, to fail, and to be vulnerable.
You have permission to own your words, to matter and to help.
No need to wait.”
~ Seth Godin
Question: What is your favorite Seth Godin post?