Practicing The Practice

I just finished Seth Godin’s latest book The Practice, and it’s excellent. If you’ve not read it yet you should absolutely pick it up.

His main push in the book (and in his other work lately) is encouragement to get out there and do your craft, but do it for yourself. The act of doing what you love is the main thing, and working on your practice is the purpose, similar to my goals for consistently writing this blog.

Some lessons from the book have shown up in recent posts of mine, like Goals Are A Commitment To The Process, and others will show up in future posts. Between those, here are four other themes from the book with quotes from Seth and others:

Be Imperfect

“It is better to follow your own path, however imperfectly, than to follow someone else’s perfectly” The Bhagavad-Gita

If we failed, would it be worth the journey?

Juggling

Seth has talked a good bit about juggling over the years, and how the key to successful juggling is perfecting the throw, not the catch.

Our work is about throwing. The catching can take care of itself.

This one isn’t really about catching, but about the work being it’s own reward.

Like playing catch with your four-year-old in the…