Seth Godin — The Pursuit of That means, The Life-Altering Energy of Selecting Your Perspective, Overcoming Rejection, Life Classes from Zig Ziglar, and Committing to

“It’s solely attainable that you just work in a spot the place you don’t have any choices. You haven’t any company. You haven’t any significance. If that’s really true, it’s best to stop, since you don’t get tomorrow over once more. My guess: it’s not really true. My guess is you’ve gotten extra company than you’re ready to embrace.”

— Seth Godin

Seth Godin is the writer of 21 worldwide bestsellers which have modified the best way individuals take into consideration work. His books have been translated into 38 languages and Seth’s books embody Tribes, Purple Cow, Linchpin, The Dip, and This Is Marketing. Seth writes one of the crucial in style advertising and marketing blogs on the planet, and two of his TED talks are among the many hottest of all time. He’s the founding father of the altMBA; the social media pioneer Squidoo; and Yoyodyne, one of many first web firms.

His new e-book is The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams.

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#672: Seth Godin — The Pursuit of That means, The Life-Altering Energy of Selecting Your Perspective, Overcoming Rejection, Life Classes from Zig Ziglar, and Committing to Making Constructive Change

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Wish to hear the final time Seth was on the present? Have a hearken to our dialog right here wherein we mentioned the etymology of the phrase “hack,” the making of magic, why hiding behind phrases like “high quality” or “perfection” as a method of suspending motion to keep away from danger is a cop-out, what Isaac Asimov and Gary Gilmore can educate us about author’s block, expertise with a disproportionate return on funding that entrepreneurs and creatives ought to contemplate cultivating, the significance of making use of constraints and limits to the educational course of, and rather more.

#476: Seth Godin on The Recreation of Life, The Worth of Hacks, and Overcoming Nervousness

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SHOW NOTES

[05:42] The modifications of growing old.
[10:07] How Seth will get over momentary lapses of optimism.
[16:13] The Carbon Almanac.
[18:40] Addressing Twenty first-century nihilism.
[26:23] Discovering significance and making a distinction.
[35:34] The boss and the bees.
[44:47] Ethically reclaiming that means from work within the Quaker surveillance state.
[51:50] Seth’s impression of my efforts over time.
[56:21] Circumnavigating false proxies.
[1:02:17] Worker retention.
[1:05:54] Let’s Get Actual or Let’s Not Play.
[1:08:07] Zig Ziglar.
[1:12:12] Seth’s early profession life.
[1:13:45] Seth’s present profession life.
[1:17:01] The 140-year-old piano.
[1:19:35] Conferences.
[1:24:04] Web page 19 pondering.
[1:27:37] Soliciting helpful writing suggestions.
[1:31:36] Parting ideas.

MORE SETH GODIN QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“What a present I’ve immediately to be within the sneakers of anyone who, at 62, will get to do issues effectively, however solely as a result of I’m strolling away from issues I can’t do anymore. And as a substitute of specializing in what I used to have, I’m actually working laborious and getting satisfaction out of specializing in what I do have and what I can do.”
— Seth Godin

“We live in a tradition the place there’s an overhang of all these individuals with loud voices speaking in regards to the finish of the world as a result of it’s the tip of their world, nevertheless it’s not the tip of the world.”
— Seth Godin

“Some individuals consider that the aim of enterprise is to allow tradition, to allow humanity. And a few individuals consider that the aim of humanity and tradition is to allow enterprise. And I feel these individuals have an excessive amount of affect proper now, they usually’re unsuitable.”
— Seth Godin

“Once we take into consideration tomorrow or the tomorrow after that, given the injury we’ve all finished, we nonetheless dwell in tradition, we nonetheless have this miracle. You and I are speaking whereas 1000’s of miles aside, we now have entry to each piece of knowledge. Now we have magical computer systems that may perceive us and discuss again. We are able to attain out to somebody in want. We are able to hook up with individuals who want to listen to from us. And if you wish to simply surrender as a result of the world goes to be completely different in 20 years, that’s your alternative. However provided that we’ve received this window, it feels to me like we have to up our concentrate on humanity and connection and risk and enchancment of the situation, and perhaps not fear a lot about public demonstrations of energy, firing individuals on-line, being brutal within the service of revenue. As a result of we don’t have a revenue scarcity, we now have a that means scarcity.”
— Seth Godin

“For those who can work out how one can get 5 or 10 individuals collectively, you possibly can most likely ban gas-powered leaf blowers in your village. And that may have 50 instances the affect of you switching to an electrical automobile. Plus the thought of banding along with 5 or 10 or 15 different individuals, creating the circumstances for different individuals to search out one thing to care about and succeed at it, will fill you with that means, not with despair.”
— Seth Godin

“Milton Friedman simply made up this nonsense about the one function of an organization is to maximise its revenue. It lets individuals off the hook they usually turn into instruments of a system that grinds stuff out.”
— Seth Godin

“It’s solely attainable that you just work in a spot the place you don’t have any choices. You haven’t any company. You haven’t any significance. If that’s really true, it’s best to stop, since you don’t get tomorrow over once more. My guess: it’s not really true. My guess is you’ve gotten extra company than you’re ready to embrace.”
— Seth Godin

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