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#105 Seth Godin: Failing On Our Way To Mastery

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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What Does It Mean to Be a Professional?

"I love being an amateur at some things. Don't sell your hobbies for you," she says. "A professional makes a promise and then keeps the promise, whether or not they feel like it." The phrase that enabled me to be an author came to me in the shower, right? But it didn't come me t shower accidentally. It came to me with intent. I'm going to stay in the shower until i have a name for this thing we do here, even if the water gets cold. And there are definitely times that permission marketing is necessary.

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