Seth Godin

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635 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 11 Jul

Seth Godin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I don't make a lot of canoe paddles.

If this paddle is worth a lot more than I'm selling it for, please buy it.

But if it's not worth a lot more to you, don't buy it because it's my hobby and I get that you want something I don't necessarily want.

So we keep coming back to being of service.

Other people don't want what you want.

See what you see.

Believe what you believe.

That's okay because you can't serve them unless you acknowledge that that's okay.

That said, there is a huge opportunity for people who can bring passion and skill to a thing that most people can't do.

And if your hobby lets you do that, that's fine.

But don't turn it into a business for everyone because now you'll ruin it.

There was a letter to the editor in the Times a few years ago.

Our close friends are selling their house and they refuse to list it with my wife.

And now I don't want to speak to them anymore.

Well, if that's how you're getting listings, you're not being of service.

What you're saying is, I'm going to leverage my friendship to get listings.

That's not how professionals do their work.

You should be the obvious choice or else they're not going to pick you.

So I wrote the first book about quitting.

It's called The Dip.

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