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Seth Godin Hates Being Organized
How Seth thinks about organization Organizing is like building a case to hold your tools. You don’t get points for making it fancy, you get points for doing the work.
Seth Godin • Seth Godin Hates Being Organized
How he puts together his talks When I give a speech I use Keynote. I was actually one of the first users of Keynote. I live in it, and it’s the way I think about things. When I give a talk I have about 200 slides, and none of the slides have words on them. Each has a picture and the picture brings up a story that I want to talk about. Each st... See more
Seth Godin • Seth Godin Hates Being Organized
When you make any piece of work that matters, the vast majority of people aren't going to like it. And there are several ways to get through that. One way to get through that is to sand off the edges and make it so that no one hates it. That's a bad idea. The other way to get through it is to deliberately insulate yourself from the people who don't... See more
Seth Godin • Seth Godin Hates Being Organized
Seth on being productive
Seth Godin • Seth Godin Hates Being Organized
I ask myself, What am I doing this for? What is its purpose other than getting paid? Because if I really want to get paid, I should go to work for Goldman Sachs. As soon as you make the decision not to work at Goldman Sachs everything you're doing should be because you are trying to enable your mission, not because you are trying to make a living.
Seth Godin • Seth Godin Hates Being Organized
I don’t have any special organization system for things like this. I don’t do it for photos or files. I used to have a perfectly organized hard drive with a complicated folder structure. Now I just throw all my files into one place and just use search. It’s like the toolbox I made all the way back at Tufts.
Seth Godin • Seth Godin Hates Being Organized
What I do, instead of focusing on order or arc, is I try to bathe people from all different directions in a way of thinking.
Seth Godin • Seth Godin Hates Being Organized
I'm thrilled beyond measure and have been for a very long time. I decided to be thrilled and then I became thrilled. It didn't happen in the other direction. There were years of doing this work where I looked for every reason to be disappointed, every reason to be upset, every reason for things to be unfair. And then one day I said, “I'm tired of l
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How he crafts the narrative of his talks