Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.
Seth GodinRemarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.
Seth GodinEveryone has failed, everyone has misspoken, everyone has meant well but done the wrong thing. Your favorite restaurants, cafes and books have all gotten a one-star review along the way. No brand is perfect, no individual can pretend to be either. Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.
Seth GodinThe resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...Itโs the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper youโre writing, because the teacher wonโt like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.
Seth GodinI look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third space. It's not work, it's not home. That's one of the engines of its spread. But at the same time he was doing that, he bet the farm to open more and more stores in any given town, and making it ubiquitous made it much easier to say to your friend, I'll meet you at Starbucks.
Seth Godin