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Seth Godin has a good point about professionalism. Being professional is doing the same thing and getting the same result over and over. These days more often
by erikstarck 16y ago
Seth Godin has a good point about professionalism. Being professional is doing the same thing and getting the same result over and over.
These days more often than not this is not what you're looking for. You're looking for the fresh angle, the different point of view, the purple cow.
You're looking for passion. For love. These are two words you seldom see together with professionalism.
EDIT: the word "amateur" has the same roots as "amore" and literally means "love what you do".
- japherwocky 16y agoJust to quibble a bit.. really, if you're looking to hire a professional contractor, you don't want fresh or creative. You want someone who can deliver to a spec on time and on budget. A joke among architects is to call plumbers|electricians|framers "creative". You don't want purple cow plumbing, and that goes for a lot of professions. ;)
- TeMPOraL 16y agoWith all respect to people who do them, I think that those kinds of proffessions should be ultimately done by machines and technology. People are good at creativity and generating new ideas; machines are good at repetition and precision.