# Be a Professional Godin has some fantastic quotes on this subject: > The amateur contributes with unfiltered joy. There’s really no other upside–create your work because you can, because it helps someone else, because it makes you feel good. > > “The key part of it [becoming the successful person you want to be] is to say: ‘I’m not going to be situational about my decision-making, I’m going to be strategic about my decision-making.’ And you only have to make that choice once. You’re not going to be great at it first, but you can stop acting like a 14-year-old, and start acting like a grown-up, a professional.” > > “Which mean — and this is where I got in trouble before — authenticity is totally overrated. I don’t want an authentic surgeon who says: ‘Urgh… I don’t really feel to do a knee surgery today…’ I want a professional who shows up whatever they feel like.” --- links: [Podcast-MOC](Podcast-MOC.md) tags: #podcast #quotes References * [Seth Godin on Tim Ferris (27:00)](https://tim.blog/2018/11/01/seth-godin-this-is-marketing/?utm_source=DeanYeong&utm_medium=) * [Professionals, Hacks and Amateurs](https://seths.blog/2020/07/professionals-hacks-and-amateurs/)