No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down. Why then, is writer's block endemic? The reason we don't get…
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Seth Godin
Seth Godin (born July 10, 1960) is an American author, entrepreneur, marketer, and public speaker. 2Background Born in Mount Vernon, New York, Godin graduated from Williamsville East High School in 1978. He received degrees in computer science and philosophy from Tufts University, followed by an MBA in marketing from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. From 1983 to 1986, he worked as a brand manager at Spinnaker Software. After leaving Spinnaker in 1986, he used $20,000 in savings to found Seth Godin Productions, primarily a book packaging business, out of a studio apartment in New York City. He then met Mark Hurst and founded Yoyodyne. After a few years, Godin sold the book packaging business to his employees and focused his efforts on Yoyodyne, where he promoted the concept of permission marketing. 2Business ventures Yoyodyne, launched in 1995, used contests, online games, and scavenger hunts to market companies to participating users. In August 1996, Flatiron Partners invested $4 million in Yoyodyne in return for a 20% stake. The site had over 1 million visitors, and the companies America Online, American Express, H&R Block, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Sony Music, Sprint, and Volvo used its service
Every artist needs to wrestle with establishing limits... Without them, there's not opportunity for leverage.
Giving up control by waiting to get picked, while giving in to the resistance and refusing to understand how their industry works.
It's best to get as many people into one room. And then go somewhere else.
When we see someone with well developed abs, we don't say, oh sure, he was born that way. Instead, we realize that a lot of effort went into it. The same thing ought to be true for people who understand science, or make good decisions, or are capable of emotional labor.
We're all capable of huge leaps of insight and empathy if we're willing to go to work to learn how.
When in doubt, do the generous thing. It usually works out the best.
Categories are rarely permanent, and most important work is done by people who don't easily fit in.