Tag: seth godin
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Choose Yourself
It’s a Seth Godin line. I love his thinking on this. If you want to read a post about it – check it out here. We are culturally programmed to wait till we are chosen. That was the way it was a decade ago. Not any more. You don’t need…
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Fear and Identity
I had a conversation yesterday about this idea. We were talking about just the news of the week, and the comment that ended the conversation was Fear Sells. I read this morning in Seth Godin’s blog, and he has written about Fear, scarcity and value. He says that we avoid…
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Fight the Resistence
If you’ve read any of Seth Godin’s books lately, you have probably read about how you need to fight the resistence. Steven Pressfield also talks about the resistence, and I think Seth might have gotten the idea from him. It doesn’t matter where it came from, both of them talk…
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The Internet Amplifies Everything
So Seth Godin wrote about how the Internet as Envy Amplifier. The Internet amplifies everything. It creates a caricature of you. It is a “safe” place to explore those aspects of identity. If you’re shy, you can be internet extroverted. If you are lonely, you can easily make friends online.…
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On Fitting In
Society isn’t kind to those who don’t fit in. We ostracize, we call names, we harass. – Seth Godin in Poke the Box. As soon as I read that, I immediately thought about some of my posts – Be Unique, but Belong. Seth is talking about leading and poking the…
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Professional Questions
I was working through my Google Reader today and came across a post from Seth Godin entitled Running away vs. running toward. Here’s the post. I love the question – Are you chasing or being chased? Are you leading or following? Are you fleeing or climbing? Such great questions. I…
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Seth’s Post on Higher Education
I read Seth Godin’s blog. If I had to chose one, I think that it’d be his. I enjoy it. He has some pretty interesting ideas. Typically, he writes about marketing and leadership, and the one time that he writes about Higher Education – the industry I am in –…
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Another Free Audiobooks
I previously posted about a free digital copy of Radical Careering and a free audio book of Chris Anderson’s Free, and I have already shared this in a previous post, but you can also get Seth Godin’s book Tribes as a free download. Click here for it.
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An Example of a Cover Telling a Story
My last post was about judging a book by it’s cover. I was reading through my rss reader and came across a post by Seth Godin – kinda about this idea. Let’s face it, we get all of our ideas from Seth any way – but Seth doesn’t care. Thanks…
