Tag: Seth Godin
Who will miss you when you’re gone?
There’s a difference between success, and significance.
There’s a difference between grabbing everyone’s attention as you make a grand entrance into the room…and being noticed when you quietly slip outside for some fresh air.
There’s and reason why many “successful” people commit suicide after achieving all that they thought they wanted.
It’s because they got what they wanted, only to find that it didn’t matter as much and they thought it did.
The pursuit was more fulfilling than the achievement.
There’s no doubt you will succeed. But my question is, ‘Are you going to matter’? — Seth Godin
Who will miss you when you’re gone?
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Flying too close to the sun
Here’s the story of Icharus in less than 10 seconds.
Icharus and his Dad are escaping an island using wings made from wax. Icharus is warned not to fly too close to the sun (so the wings don’t melt). Icharus disobeys. His wings melt. He falls into the ocean and drowns. The end.
Lesson: curiosity killed the cat, obey your parents, colour within the lines, don’t try to reach beyond your boundaries…
But as Seth points out in The Icharus Deception, that’s only half of the story.
Icharus was also told by his Dad not to fly too low, so that his wings wouldn’t be damaged by the salt spray from the ocean.
Lesson: making a prison break on waxen wings isn’t an exact science, playing it safe can be the most risky thing you can do, aiming too low is dangerous…
Most of us have been conditioned by Med School et al. to keep our heads down and avoid flying too close to the sun…so you’re easier to control.
Clearly, the one thing you must do, then, is fly as close to the sun as you possibly can.
What’s the worst that can happen if you do?
Or more importantly: what’s the worst that can happen if you don’t?
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If it isn’t embarrassing…
You were seduced and sedated in school to seek out the safe, respectable, quiet, dull and boring stuff that wouldn’t get you into trouble…wouldn’t invite anyone to make fun of you.
Now, the only work worth doing…that won’t be computerised/mechanised/outsourced to an automated drone…
…is the work that feels embarrassing, and actively empowers others to make fun of you.
If it isn’t embarrassing, then you shouldn’t feel relieved…you should be terrified.
That’s a huge part of the reason that I decided to start a medical school called Bizarro…whilst being a medical student who’s already been kicked out of med school.
What are the embarrassing things that you’ve kept putting off until “later”?
Those are the things you need to start working on right now.
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