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The great cellist Jacqueline Du Pre was a prodigy from an early age. At age six, she was running, cello over her head, down the performance hall where she was one of the performers that day. She was smiling and laughing and running. A janitor, figuring she must have just performed and was relieved and […]

10 Reasons You Should Quit Your Day Job But Not Your Day Dream Mostly, I was a criminal. Unless I was excited, I could care less. And I’d actively sabotage my job and my happiness. I eat what I kill. The magic happens only when I’m in love. Ten things I learned while I quit […]

He was definitely too old. Everyone told him he was too old. Publishers hated him. He tried year after year. He was getting tired. It was harder to get up in the morning. He hated his job. Maybe he hated his life. He was stuck. He was getting frustrated. Rejections piling up. Another and then […]

What is important in life? I thought I would be happy if she loved me. Her name was Amy. She has no chance of reading this. She’s a doctor in Philadelphia. She saves lives. She never once thinks about me ever. We dated for six months in 1991. Maybe I should remember this: when someone […]

The reality is: I took a job so I could have an excuse to move cities and slowly disintegrate the relationship with my girlfriend. I figured living 300 miles away would allow me to disengage from contact with her and eventually end it. It ended the way these things typically end. She was unhappy with […]

I was doing what I hated. Working a job. Listening to a boss yell at me when he had a bad day with his wife. Working with people that I wouldn’t be friends with unless I had to sit next to them in a cubicle. Doing things that were the opposite of everything I dreamed […]

(or…”I Am Seth Godin…and Other Strange Things I Learned in Los Angeles”) This guy comes up to me outside of the Skylark bookstore in LA and says, “Seth Godin?” “You’re Seth Godin, right?” And I say “No” and show him a photo of Seth and me talking together just a few days earlier. And he […]