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The value of hard work and persistence
How to stay focused on long-term goals
How to learn from failures and setbacks
"Because people don’t want to do; they want to be. They want to be less busy and more productive, less alone and more connected, less fearful and more safe"
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"You can’t begin to tell a story without understanding why that story should matter to the people you want to serve. You can’t build a great business just by being different"
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"If in creating new products and services for people our biggest concern is understanding and improving things for other people – what a gorgeous world we could have."
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Getting to know your customers’ needs and wants is important, but that alone won’t make your business successful. It’s also important to make sure your business matters.
In order to ensure that people perceive the difference in the quality of services or products you provide, the n...
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So much time has been spent explaining to people the features of services and products but that is speaking to a rational buyer's mind. People really want to know what is underneath the product or service, and what could potentially change for them by using it.
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"Today the shortcut to more is to matter – not to be different, but to do something that creates difference. It isn’t the person with the best ideas who wins; it’s the person who has the greatest understanding of what really matters to people."
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A modern marketing strategy involves not screaming at potential customers but instead telling stories they can relate to or identify with.
Airbnb, for example, offers great stories about the company. It is aware of the high cost of hotels and their impersonal service. ...
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Set out to be the best at whatever it is you’re going to be. Don’t set out to be okay, or an alternate service that is slightly cheaper or just alright.
Figure out who you want to help, and what you can do to ease their pain. Be the one everyone who cares about your particular thing mus...
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People embrace busyness because they are having a hard time being alone and enjoying it.
Being busy is a tricky form of entertainment however — we don’t feel the boredom, but it isn’t fun either.
Mentally strong people can tolerate being alone and they don’t fear silence. They aren’t afraid to be alone with their thoughts and they can use downtime to be productive.
They enjoy their own company and aren’t dependent on others for companionship and entertainment all the time .
Smart people find that being a lot with other people distracts them from their aspirations and goals.
They find people around them annoying after a while, as they have better, more productive things to do, which they prefer doing alone.
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