In meetings, as in education, we need to connect the dots, not collect the dots.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/08/connect-the-dots

#meetings #EventDesign #evaluations #FacilitatingChange #SethGodin #eventprofs

Discipline

What do you do when you don’t feel like it? Especially then.

It’s been said that discipline is how you earn freedom; freedom in the sense of being able to do what you want with your time. Freedom, with a capital, is of course an inherent right. I tend to add systems and queues (a fancy word for piles of stuff to do) to both get things out of my head and to impose some order.

But to answer Godin’s question specifically: When I really don’t feel like doing any of the things I’ve set myself up for, I step back and survey. Because it’s usually a sound indicator that I’ve got too many things I’m imagining I’m going to get done.

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For better meetings, Albert Einstein, Oscar Wilde, and Seth Godin agree that we need to focus on learning, not education!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2021/12/focus-on-learning-not-education

#learning #education #SocialLearning #AlbertEinstein #OscarWilde #SethGodin

“Everyone who disagrees with you believes they are correct.” — Seth Godin, "Notes to myself," Seth’s Blog (02025-07-10)
#QOTD #Quotation #Quote #SethGodin #Correct

https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/03/quote-of-the-day-5445/

Things that feel risky.
Often aren’t.
In fact, they might be the safest way forward.

Zu gut, um es nicht zu teilen. 🤗

#sethgodin

https://seths.blog/2026/02/things-that-feel-risky/

The easiest form of management is to encourage or demand that people do more. The other translation of this phrase is to go faster. The most important and difficult form of management (verging on leadership) is to encourage people to do better. Better is trickier than more because people have trouble visualizing themselves doing better. It requires education and coaching and patience to create a team of people who are better.
-- Seth Godin ((Seth's Blog))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SethGodin #Improvement #Efficiency #Leadership #Management

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico

“Shame is a dream killer.” — Seth Godin, "Notes to myself," Seth’s Blog (02025-07-10)
#QOTD #SethGodin #Quotation #Shame #Quote

https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/quote-of-the-day-5414/

Jailbroken Kindle Keyboard + "The Dip" by Seth Godin.

A great way to read without big tech.

​#Hardware #Jailbreak #Books #SethGodin #AntiBigTech #Amazon #Kindle

Five lessons event planners can learn from the iPad launch. Here's why Apple sold 300,000 iPads on the first day of the iPad launch.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/04/five-lessons-event-planners-can-learn-from-the-ipad-launch

#meetings #marketing #SethGodin #iPadLaunch #success #eventprofs

Extraction

This is a rich conversation around validation vs. reassurance, which I recently revisited. Go listen. (Seth Godin and Brian Koppelman, 7/7/2015, from The Moment podcast—from over 10 years ago, back catalog for the win!)

I recently re-listened. Then I took the audio file, had a transcript generated (from otter.ai), passed it to Claude.ai who wrote me a magnificent list of takeaways. I’ve been reading over them, thinking about them, and weaving the ideas into my thinking.

But I’m not publishing those takeaways because that would be devaluing Koppelman’s and Godin’s work. AI is a power tool which I use for various things. (For example, I use it to help me write show notes for my podcast episodes, which I do publish in full.) But I blog here to help my thinking (and in this case to encourage others to listen to a great podcast episode.)

I’m not trying to give you all the gems all polished up from something someone else created. If you want the gems, go listen; Find your way to get the gems. Because the gems are only valuable if you dig them out and polish them yourself.

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