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Seth Godin, the author.

I would describe his work as business insights slash self-help slash self-actualization, making yourself better, thinking better, thinking more clearly.

I've thought for a long time that Seth Godin does that very well in short, terse soundbites.

I'd like to read one, which I think really opens up and applies universally for my life, for my world, for my work, but for you, for anyone, for any point in time, name the subject. The title,

What is and What Might Be, kind of reminds me of an old Led Zeppelin song. The passage from Seth

goes, they have much less in common than you might expect what is and what might be.

The key step in creating a better future is insisting that it not be based on the assumptions, grievances, and dead ends of the past.

Ooh, right? He's right in the moment of now. Alan Watts 101.

Seth continues. The future won't be perfect. We won't be perfect. But we can be kind. We can listen. We can give opportunity the

benefit of the doubt. The future won't always work. We won't always succeed. But we can be alert and

seek out the possible instead of the predicted.

A possible instead of the predicted.

Hold that thought for a second.

Seth, continuing, the future won't always be fair, but we can try, we can care, we can

choose to connect.

It can be better if we let it.

I'm not sure how many books Seth is channeling to reduce that wisdom to that simple few sentences. Absolutely brilliant, though. And he's doing it

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