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

“It’s fully doable that you simply work in a spot the place you haven’t any choices. You haven’t any company. You haven’t any significance. If that’s truly true, it’s best to give up, since you don’t get tomorrow over once more. My guess: it isn’t truly true. My guess is you’ve gotten extra company than you are ready to embrace.”

— Seth Godin

Seth Godin is the creator of 21 worldwide bestsellers which have modified the way in which folks take into consideration work. His books have been translated into 38 languages and Seth’s books embrace Tribes, Purple Cow, Linchpin, The Dip, and This Is Marketing. Seth writes probably the most in style advertising blogs on the earth, 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 Which means, The Life-Altering Energy of Selecting Your Angle, Overcoming Rejection, Life Classes from Zig Ziglar, and Committing to Making Constructive Change

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Need to hear the final time Seth was on the present? Have a take heed 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 way of suspending motion to keep away from threat is a cop-out, what Isaac Asimov and Gary Gilmore can educate us about author’s block, abilities with a disproportionate return on funding that entrepreneurs and creatives ought to think about cultivating, the significance of making use of constraints and limits to the educational course of, and way more.

#476: Seth Godin on The Sport of Life, The Worth of Hacks, and Overcoming Anxiousness

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SHOW NOTES

[05:42] The adjustments of getting older.
[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 considering.
[1:27:37] Soliciting helpful writing suggestions.
[1:31:36] Parting ideas.

MORE SETH GODIN QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“What a present I’ve at present to be within the footwear of anyone who, at 62, will get to do issues nicely, however solely as a result of I’m strolling away from issues I can’t do anymore. And as an alternative of specializing in what I used to have, I’m actually working onerous 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 folks with loud voices speaking concerning the finish of the world as a result of it’s the top of their world, however it’s not the top of the world.”
— Seth Godin

“Some folks imagine that the aim of enterprise is to allow tradition, to allow humanity. And a few folks imagine that the aim of humanity and tradition is to allow enterprise. And I believe these folks have an excessive amount of affect proper now, and so they’re flawed.”
— Seth Godin

“After we take into consideration tomorrow or the tomorrow after that, given the injury we’ve all performed, we nonetheless stay in tradition, we nonetheless have this miracle. You and I are speaking whereas 1000’s of miles aside, we have now entry to each piece of data. We have now magical computer systems that may perceive us and discuss again. We are able to attain out to somebody in want. We are able to connect 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 totally different in 20 years, that’s your alternative. However provided that we’ve obtained this window, it feels to me like we have to up our give attention to humanity and connection and chance and enchancment of the situation, and perhaps not fear a lot about public demonstrations of energy, firing folks on-line, being brutal within the service of revenue. As a result of we don’t have a revenue scarcity, we have now a that means scarcity.”
— Seth Godin

“For those who can determine easy methods to get 5 or 10 folks collectively, you possibly can most likely ban gas-powered leaf blowers in your village. And that may have 50 occasions the influence of you switching to an electrical automotive. Plus the concept of banding along with 5 or 10 or 15 different folks, creating the circumstances for different folks to seek 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 a company is to maximise its revenue. It lets folks off the hook and so they change into instruments of a system that grinds stuff out.”
— Seth Godin

“It’s fully doable that you simply work in a spot the place you haven’t any choices. You haven’t any company. You haven’t any significance. If that’s truly true, it’s best to give up, since you don’t get tomorrow over once more. My guess: it isn’t truly true. My guess is you’ve gotten extra company than you are ready to embrace.”
— Seth Godin

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