People who are motivated.
People who can steer, innovate, provoke, lead, connect and make things happen.
People who will do art, will be brave and are willing to fail (often).
People who solve a new problem in a new way. And all of us have done that at least once in our life. Even if it goes back to our kindergarten experience.
People are not the standard resume they give you. Standard resumes are out.
People who have projects, not resumes.
People who are the great engineers of our time, programmers, materials specialists, inventors.
Everyone is leadership material! The only question is whether they’ve practiced or not.
People who lead. Leading gives one charisma, not the other way around.
People who choose to do the work necessary to become indispensable at something. They will succeed.
People who start with making the choice.
People who create what matters.
Question by John Furst: While you assert the genius is in everyone, … Are there professions, industries that are especially rewarding for linchpins and others one should probably consider exiting. Or in other words, jobs in which that genius has no other potential than being wasted.
Answer by Seth Godin: I think that industries that are based on commodities and on repeated life or death deliverables are probably not the best places for artists, for people making change or doing new work.
I’d stay away from Exxon or a pacemaker factory.
John: Can you imagine a story that if you hear it you would say about, “If only that had happened because of my book, it would have been enough reason to do all this work and write this book.” What would that story be?
Seth Godin: I’ve already discovered everything I was hoping for… people are telling me that the book has given them the last push they needed to do something important, something worthy of their effort. That’s the whole point!
Thanks, Seth.
I hope you are getting something out of this blog post. In case your mind just has gotten hungry for more… Here is
I only have received Seth’s preview summary so far. That’s one disadvantage of living on an island in the Atlantic.
Now tell me how you want to change respectively what or who you would love to change.
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