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Not to Pursue, but to Ensue

Godin listed the skills he felt couldn’t be outsourced.

analysis

insight

surprise

responsibility

humor

creativity

guts

respect

charisma

vision

calm

love

Did you learn any of those in a classroom? The only way I’ve found them is to surround yourself with people that already have them. To absorb them through iteration and imitation until they become dispositional. Books are only a mediocre substitute. The key though is to avoid the academic pressures that push you away from those skills and towards sycophantry, cautiousness, repetition, tradition, jealousy and shortsightedness. Because once you tattoo yourself with those any of these viewpoints, the scars never go away.

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