#sethgodin — Public Fediverse posts

For better meetings, Albert Einstein, Oscar Wilde, and Seth Godin agree that we need to focus on learning, not education!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2021/12/focus-on-learning-not-education

#learning #education #SocialLearning #AlbertEinstein #OscarWilde #SethGodin

For better meetings, Albert Einstein, Oscar Wilde, and Seth Godin agree that we need to focus on learning, not education!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2021/12/focus-on-learning-not-education

#learning #education #SocialLearning #AlbertEinstein #OscarWilde #SethGodin

Mindblowing Input von #SethGodin - er hat #Google #Gemini über Googles "relentless push to make blogs less popular" gefragt. Und die Maschine hat eine ehrliche Antwort geliefert.

Als #Bloggerin war mir das längst bewusst - ich habe es miterlebt! Aber das so bestätigt zu bekommen ... ist schon ne Nummer.

Hier die Analyse zum Tod des freien Internets durch die Maschine, die ihr gerade den letzten Todesstoß versetzt:

https://seths.blog/2026/06/blogs-traffic-and-google/

#Blog

For better meetings, Albert Einstein, Oscar Wilde, and Seth Godin agree that we need to focus on learning, not education!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2021/12/focus-on-learning-not-education

#learning #education #SocialLearning #AlbertEinstein #OscarWilde #SethGodin

For better meetings, Albert Einstein, Oscar Wilde, and Seth Godin agree that we need to focus on learning, not education!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2021/12/focus-on-learning-not-education

#learning #education #SocialLearning #AlbertEinstein #OscarWilde #SethGodin

Two Problems with Whining. The first is that it doesn't work. You can whine about the government or your friends or your job or your family, but nothing will happen except that you'll waste time. Worse... far worse... is that whining is a reverse placebo. When you get good at whining, you start noticing evidence that makes your whining more true. So you amplify that and immerse yourself in it, thus creating more evidence, more stuff worth complaining about. If you spent the same time prattling on about how optimistic you are, you'd have to work hard to make that true...
-- Seth Godin ((Seth's Blog))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SethGodin #Optimism #Pessimism #Whining

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #MotorMill #Iowa

Two Problems with Whining. The first is that it doesn't work. You can whine about the government or your friends or your job or your family, but nothing will happen except that you'll waste time. Worse... far worse... is that whining is a reverse placebo. When you get good at whining, you start noticing evidence that makes your whining more true. So you amplify that and immerse yourself in it, thus creating more evidence, more stuff worth complaining about. If you spent the same time prattling on about how optimistic you are, you'd have to work hard to make that true...
-- Seth Godin ((Seth's Blog))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SethGodin #Optimism #Pessimism #Whining

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #MotorMill #Iowa

In meetings, as in education, we need to connect the dots, not collect the dots.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/08/connect-the-dots

#meetings #EventDesign #evaluations #FacilitatingChange #SethGodin #eventprofs

In meetings, as in education, we need to connect the dots, not collect the dots.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/08/connect-the-dots

#meetings #EventDesign #evaluations #FacilitatingChange #SethGodin #eventprofs

Five lessons event planners can learn from the iPad launch. Here's why Apple sold 300,000 iPads on the first day of the iPad launch.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/04/five-lessons-event-planners-can-learn-from-the-ipad-launch

#meetings #marketing #SethGodin #iPadLaunch #success #eventprofs

Five lessons event planners can learn from the iPad launch. Here's why Apple sold 300,000 iPads on the first day of the iPad launch.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/04/five-lessons-event-planners-can-learn-from-the-ipad-launch

#meetings #marketing #SethGodin #iPadLaunch #success #eventprofs

https://seths.blog/2026/04/the-book-of-concern/

“The book of concern is more than a conceptual hack. It’s an actual physical intervention, and it might be worth trying for a week.
Write down the emergency of this moment. The one that’s taking your gaze away from your strategy and the long-term work you set out to do. Write it down.
If it’s still important in two days, go ahead and focus on it.” #sethgodin

In meetings, as in education, we need to connect the dots, not collect the dots.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/08/connect-the-dots

#meetings #EventDesign #evaluations #FacilitatingChange #SethGodin #eventprofs

In meetings, as in education, we need to connect the dots, not collect the dots.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/08/connect-the-dots

#meetings #EventDesign #evaluations #FacilitatingChange #SethGodin #eventprofs

Discipline

What do you do when you don’t feel like it? Especially then.

~ Seth Godin, from Our practice

It’s been said that discipline is how you earn freedom; freedom in the sense of being able to do what you want with your time. Freedom, with a capital, is of course an inherent right. I tend to add systems and queues (a fancy word for piles of stuff to do) to both get things out of my head and to impose some order.

But to answer Godin’s question specifically: When I really don’t feel like doing any of the things I’ve set myself up for, I step back and survey. Because it’s usually a sound indicator that I’ve got too many things I’m imagining I’m going to get done.

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For better meetings, Albert Einstein, Oscar Wilde, and Seth Godin agree that we need to focus on learning, not education!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2021/12/focus-on-learning-not-education

#learning #education #SocialLearning #AlbertEinstein #OscarWilde #SethGodin

For better meetings, Albert Einstein, Oscar Wilde, and Seth Godin agree that we need to focus on learning, not education!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2021/12/focus-on-learning-not-education

#learning #education #SocialLearning #AlbertEinstein #OscarWilde #SethGodin

Things that feel risky.
Often aren’t.
In fact, they might be the safest way forward.

Zu gut, um es nicht zu teilen. 🤗

#sethgodin

https://seths.blog/2026/02/things-that-feel-risky/

The easiest form of management is to encourage or demand that people do more. The other translation of this phrase is to go faster. The most important and difficult form of management (verging on leadership) is to encourage people to do better. Better is trickier than more because people have trouble visualizing themselves doing better. It requires education and coaching and patience to create a team of people who are better.
-- Seth Godin ((Seth's Blog))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SethGodin #Improvement #Efficiency #Leadership #Management

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico

Jailbroken Kindle Keyboard + "The Dip" by Seth Godin.

A great way to read without big tech.

​#Hardware #Jailbreak #Books #SethGodin #AntiBigTech #Amazon #Kindle

Five lessons event planners can learn from the iPad launch. Here's why Apple sold 300,000 iPads on the first day of the iPad launch.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/04/five-lessons-event-planners-can-learn-from-the-ipad-launch

#meetings #marketing #SethGodin #iPadLaunch #success #eventprofs

Failure is the cost you pay to be right.
-- Seth Godin ((Seth's Blog))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SethGodin #Failure #Success

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

In meetings, as in education, we need to connect the dots, not collect the dots.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/08/connect-the-dots

#meetings #EventDesign #evaluations #FacilitatingChange #SethGodin #eventprofs

For better meetings, Albert Einstein, Oscar Wilde, and Seth Godin agree that we need to focus on learning, not education!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2021/12/focus-on-learning-not-education

#learning #education #SocialLearning #AlbertEinstein #OscarWilde #SethGodin

🚗✨ "Understanding Carriage" is a riveting deep dive into... well, nothing, honestly. Seth Godin's blog post is just another forgettable entry in the grand library of internet fluff that promises enlightenment but delivers more spam than substance. 🤖📧 Who knew understanding carriages involved subscribing to every course and digest available?
https://seths.blog/2025/12/understanding-carriage/ #UnderstandingCarriage #InternetFluff #SethGodin #SpamContent #CarriageCourses #HackerNews #ngated

Five lessons event planners can learn from the iPad launch. Here's why Apple sold 300,000 iPads on the first day of the iPad launch.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/04/five-lessons-event-planners-can-learn-from-the-ipad-launch

#meetings #marketing #SethGodin #iPadLaunch #success #eventprofs

Seth Godin: Attention is now a "luxury good"—as if your overflowing inbox wasn't already proof enough 🙄. Dive into his blog for more philosophical musings mixed with a healthy dose of shameless self-promotion 📢. Why read when you can subscribe to get even more updates you'll never open? 💌
https://seths.blog/2025/10/attention-is-a-luxury-good/ #SethGodin #AttentionLuxury #InboxPhilosophy #BlogUpdates #HackerNews #ngated

In meetings, as in education, we need to connect the dots, not collect the dots.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/08/connect-the-dots

#meetings #EventDesign #evaluations #FacilitatingChange #SethGodin #eventprofs

It pays to have big dreams but low overhead.
-- Seth Godin ((Seth's Blog))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SethGodin #Failure #Success

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BWCA #RoseFalls #Minnesota

For better meetings, Albert Einstein, Oscar Wilde, and Seth Godin agree that we need to focus on learning, not education!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2021/12/focus-on-learning-not-education

#learning #education #SocialLearning #AlbertEinstein #OscarWilde #SethGodin

For better meetings, Albert Einstein, Oscar Wilde, and Seth Godin agree that we need to focus on learning, not education!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2021/12/focus-on-learning-not-education

#learning #education #SocialLearning #AlbertEinstein #OscarWilde #SethGodin

Failure is the cost you pay to be right.
-- Seth Godin ((Seth's Blog))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SethGodin #Failure #Success

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Florida

In meetings, as in education, we need to connect the dots, not collect the dots.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/08/connect-the-dots

#meetings #EventDesign #evaluations #FacilitatingChange #SethGodin #eventprofs

It pays to have big dreams but low overhead.
-- Seth Godin ((Seth's Blog))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SethGodin #Failure #Success

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BWCA #RoseFalls #Minnesota

For better meetings, Albert Einstein, Oscar Wilde, and Seth Godin agree that we need to focus on learning, not education!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2021/12/focus-on-learning-not-education

#learning #education #SocialLearning #AlbertEinstein #OscarWilde #SethGodin

The disturbing truth

Artists never stop looking for the disturbing truth behind the facade. When reality arrives, they won’t be surprised, because they saw it coming. Sometimes they even encouraged it to come.

~ Seth Godin

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The choice

It’s a choice. The choice between being the linchpin (the one people can’t live without) and the cog (who does what she’s told). The choice between doing art (and forging your own path, on your own terms, and owning what happens) and merely doing your job (which pushes all the power and all the responsibility to someone else).

The good news is that it’s your choice, no one else’s.

~ Seth Godin

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Purpose of myths

The purpose of myths is not to have us feel separate from the gods in stories but to have us understand that we are capable of the great feats that they perform.

~ Seth Godin

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Overconfidence

The world is filled with overconfident people. Overconfidence leads to malpractice, to fraud, and to broken promises. Overconfidence is arrogance. You don’t want an overconfident surgeon or even an overconfident bus driver. By definition, overconfidence leads to risky behavior and inadequate preparation. But the practice requires us to do our work without becoming attached to the outcome. It’s not overconfidence, it’s a practice of experiments that respect the pitfalls of hubris.

~ Seth Godin

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Culture, passion, curiosity

If culture is sufficient to establish what we eat, how we speak, and ten thousand other societal norms, why isn’t it able to teach us a process to make art? Isn’t it possible for the culture to normalize goal setting and passion and curiosity and the ability to persuade? It can. And you don’t have to wait for it to happen. You can begin now.

~ Seth Godin

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Lifelong learning

Now that we’ve built an industrial solution to teaching in bulk, we’ve seduced ourselves into believing that the only thing that can be taught are easily measured “hard” skills. We shouldn’t be buying this. We can teach people to make commitments, to overcome fear, to deal transparently to initiate, and to plan a course of action. We can teach people to desire lifelong learning, to express themselves, and to innovate.

~ Seth Godin

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Watching the light go on

This was Seth Godin’s second appearance on Brian Koppelman’s show The Moment and captures a slightly less polished version of some of his usual messaging. It’s easier to see his path to really polished books like This is Marketing and The Practice.

I think we talked last time about watching the light go on for people. That is my mission. That is what I’ve been doing since I was 18 years old, that when I’m doing my best work, what I’m doing is engaging with someone and helping them see the world differently and let them do work that they care about. And sometimes you can do that with a book. And the magic of books used to be that millions of people would go to a store waiting for a light to be turned on. So it’s scaled. And it was a combination of solitary endeavor, but a community one as well. I do it in person with people I care about. But that doesn’t scale. So the question is, is there a way in this post book world to be able to create environments where people change.

~ Seth Godin ~3:17 in the July 7, 2015 episode of The Moment with Brian Koppelman

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Depending on where you normally listen, this episode might be hard to find. It’s more than 300 episodes back (7 years) in Koppelman’s The Moment podcast. I couldn’t find it on the main web site for the show. (I originally found it because I have a way of manually, human-reading RSS feeds, beginning from the first entry in a “drip” system.)

The link below is to a service from Overcast (the podcast player app) which will let you play it in your favorite web browser.

https://overcast.fm/+HS-ViyTws

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Trust yourself and promise

What we seek out is someone who sees us and consistently keeps their promises to bring us the magic we were hoping for. Someone who has committed to rhyming with what they did yesterday. When you trust yourself enough to turn pro, You’re entering into a covenant with those you seek to serve. You promise to design with intention, and they agree to engage with the work you promised to bring them.

~ Seth Godin

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Friction and process

Picasso observed that, “inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” Inspiration has to find you in the midst of your practice.

Let’s say that I enjoy painting. When I find myself painting, I usually find myself happy. I love the feeling of setting down my brush after having worked out some little problem in a painting. And so, I decide I’m going to paint regularly.

Or let’s say I enjoy sailing. I love the adventure, or the wind in my face. And so, I decide I’m going to sail regularly.

Or, running, writing, movement, music … your choice.

But without concrete plans, and clear processes, I will never actually do the practice. Friction, followed closely by excuses, will sap my momentum. If I’m to be a runner, my shoes, clothes, music or whatever I need— Those things must be in place. For any practice there are some things which you will feel must be in place.

The processes that I’m imagining, which remove friction and enable my practice, have a steady state. For my process, what does “done” look like? It looks like me sailing so often I can’t even remember not sailing all the time. Or it looks like me running and jumping and playing so often that my body is a comfortable place for my mind.

Matthew Frederick, the author of 101 Things I learned in Architecture School, makes this point:

True style does not come from a conscious effort to create a particular look. It results obliquely—even accidentally—out of a holistic process.

This point about a holistic process—the idea that mastery isn’t some higgledy-piggledy mish-mash of throwing things together—is an idea I’ve held dearly for a long time. Every single time that I’ve decided to take a process, and repeat it in search of understanding, the learning and personal growth has paid off beyond my wildest dreams.

I’m a process process process person. The second time I have to do something, I’m trying to figure out how to either never have to do that again, or how to automate it. (And failing those two, it goes into my admin day.) Random activity, powered by inspiration works to get one thing done. But inspiration doesn’t work in the long run, and it won’t carry me through my practice.

Instead, I want to know what can I intentionally do to set up my life, so that I later find myself simply being the sort of person who does my chosen practice? I want to eliminate every possible bit of friction that may sap my momentum.

There’s a phrase in cooking, mise en place, meaning to have everything in its proper place before starting. The classic example of failure in this regard is to be half-way through making something only to realize you’re missing an ingredient and having to throw away the food. Merlin Mann, who’s little known beyond knowledge workers, has done the most to improve processes for knowledge workers and creative people. I’m not sure if he’s ever said it explicitly, but a huge part of what he did was to elevate knowledge workers and creatives by cultivating a mise en place mindset.

And don’t confuse “process” or a “mise en place” mindset with goals. Forget goals. Focus on the process, and focus on eliminating friction.

To quote Seth Godin:

The specific outcome is not the primary driver of our practice. […] We can begin with this: If we failed, would it be worth the journey? Do you trust yourself enough to commit to engaging with a project regardless of the chances of success? The first step is to separate the process from the outcome. Not because we don’t care about the outcome. But because we do.

And I’ll give my last words to Vincent Thibault, author of one of my favorite books:

That is how we are still conditioned socially as adults: Do, achieve, produce results, instead of be, feel, enjoy the process. Quantitative over qualitative. We are obsessed by performance and “tangible” results. But that is one of the great teaching of Parkour and Art du Déplacement: That the path is just as enjoyable as the destination; That sometimes it is even more important, and that oftentimes it is the destination.

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Skill

Skill is earned. It’s learned and practiced and hard-won. It’s insulting to call a professional talented. She’s skilled, first and foremost. Many people have talent, but only a few care enough to show up fully, to earn their skill. Skill is rarer than talent. Skill is earned. Skill is available to anyone who cares enough.

~ Seth Godin

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Attachment

Worrying is impossible without attachment. No one worries about the weather on Saturn, because no one is counting on the weather to be a certain way. The time we spend worrying is actually time we’re spending trying to control something that is out of our control. Time invested in something that is within our control is called work. That’s where our most productive focus lies.

~ Seth Godin

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The specific outcome

The specific outcome is not the primary driver of our practice. […] We can begin with this: If we failed, would it be worth the journey? Do you trust yourself enough to commit to engaging with a project regardless of the chances of success? The first step is to separate the process from the outcome. Not because we don’t care about the outcome. But because we do.

~ Seth Godin

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Small asks

The world expects that its requests will be accepted. That assignments, lunch dates, new projects, and even favors will get a yes. […] It’s just a small ask, the person thinks. Responding or reacting to incoming asks becomes the narration of your days, instead of the generous work of making your own contribution.

~ Seth Godin

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Decisions and outcomes

Decisions are good even if the outcomes aren’t. The same is true for the process of generous creativity. The process is a smart one even if the particular work doesn’t resonate, even if the art doesn’t sell, even if you aren’t happy with the reaction from the critics. That’s because what we seek and how we create aren’t the same thing.

~ Seth Godin

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The reward

For the important work, the instructions are always insufficient. For the work we’d like to do, the reward comes from the fact that there is no guarantee, that the path isn’t well lit, that we cannot possibly be sure it’s going to work.

~ Seth Godin

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Easy versus hard

Those things are easy now. They might cost more than we’d like, but you can put them on a check-list and they’ll get done. What’s hard now is breaking the rules. What’s hard is finding the faith to become a heretic, to seek out an innovation and then, in the face of huge amounts of resistance, to lead a team and to push the innovation out the door into the world. Successful people are the ones who are good at this.

~ Seth Godin

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Leadership

And in the end, cynicism is a lousy strategy. Hope without a strategy doesn’t generate leadership. Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there. People won’t follow you if they don’t believe you can get to where you say you’re going.

~ Seth Godin

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Leadership

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

~ Seth Godin

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Faith that you can

The first thing you need to know is that individuals have far more power than ever before in history. […] The second thing you need to know is that the only thing holding you back from becoming the kind of person who changes things is this: Lack of faith. Faith that you can do it. Faith that it’s worth doing. Faith that failure won’t destroy you.

~ Seth Godin

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Faith

The first thing you need to know is that individuals have far more power than ever before in history. […] The second thing you need to know is that the only thing holding you back from becoming the kind of person who changes things is this: Lack of faith. Faith that you can do it. Faith that it’s worth doing. Faith that failure won’t destroy you.

~ Seth Godin

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I continue to enjoy the Movers Mindset project for many reasons. In recent months, I’ve been stepping back from the body of work and I keep having the same thought: I think this is really great, but I feel there should be something more useful as a result of all the work. (Useful specifically for me, I mean.) I’m convinced that there are lessons that I’ve missed, or not managed to hold onto; Insights that can only be seen from a perspective that is not within one particular conversation.

So I’ve been tinkering on creating, well, something. I don’t know what it is yet, or how to describe it either. But I have faith that it’s worth trying to create something which enables something new to be extracted from all the conversations I’ve captured.

Some days, I have far more questions than answers to share.

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