seth-godin-strategic-philosophy

name	Seth Godin — Strategic Philosophy
description	Complete operating philosophy for overcoming resistance, shipping creative work, and doing what matters for people who care
version	1.2
format	completion-engine
workflows	8

Seth Godin — Strategic Philosophy

The operating system for overcoming resistance, shipping work that matters, and serving the smallest viable audience with consistency and generosity.

This skill captures Seth Godin's complete philosophy of creative self-leadership — the engine that powers everything from writing to marketing to living. Not viral mechanics (see seth-godin-ideavirus for that), but the human operating system that makes any creative or professional work possible.

Expert: Seth Godin — Marketing Visionary, 20+ bestselling books, Marketing Hall of Fame inductee Domain: Strategic Philosophy + Shipping + Self-Leadership + Meaningful Work

Available Workflows

#	Workflow	Produces	Use When
01	Resistance Diagnosis & Breakthrough	Resistance audit + action protocol	You're stuck, procrastinating, or can't start something important
02	Ship It Protocol	Spec definition + shipping decision + perfectionism intervention	You have something nearly done but keep perfecting instead of releasing
03	Strategic Clarity Engine	SVA definition + "Who/What" positioning + problems/situations triage	Starting something new and need clarity on who you serve and why
04	Remarkability Audit	Assessment + improvement plan for any idea/product/content	You want to know if people will care enough to remark about it
05	Status Trap Escape & Fuel Diagnosis	Status game audit + fuel recalibration + role-of-best-self protocol	Feeling trapped in comparison, vanity metrics, or wrong fuel
06	Four Threads Strategy Compass	Strategy One-Pager — Systems × Time × Games × Empathy diagnostic + becoming statement	Everything on the plan is tactics, "get the word out" appeared, or a market's front door won't open
07	Decision Quality Audit	Decision Quality Scorecard + constraint charter + tomorrow-once time reallocation	Re-litigating a decision by its outcome, facing a big fork, or drowning in yeses
08	Audience Truth Audit	Hidden Decision-Maker Map + Qualified Feedback Loop Design	Something isn't converting despite "obviously" fitting its audience, or public comments/reviews are quietly steering decisions

Quick Reference

• Genius Context: genius.md — load before any workflow
• Companion Skill: seth-godin-ideavirus — viral mechanics and idea propagation
• Extraction Source: extraction-report.md

Execution Prompts (structure-pure v2)

8 deterministic practitioner prompts — each carries an Output Contract, Output Skeleton, and Quality Gate. When a deliverable matches one, Read it and honor its contract instead of improvising the output shape.

• Seth Godin — Audience Truth Audit — skills/seth-godin-philosophy/references/prompts-v2/audience-truth-audit.md
• Seth Godin — Decision Quality Audit — skills/seth-godin-philosophy/references/prompts-v2/decision-quality-audit.md
• Seth Godin — Four Threads Strategy Compass — skills/seth-godin-philosophy/references/prompts-v2/four-threads-strategy-compass.md
• Seth Godin — Remarkability Audit — skills/seth-godin-philosophy/references/prompts-v2/remarkability-audit.md
• Seth Godin — Resistance Breakthrough — skills/seth-godin-philosophy/references/prompts-v2/resistance-breakthrough.md
• Seth Godin — Ship It Decision — skills/seth-godin-philosophy/references/prompts-v2/ship-it-decision.md
• Seth Godin — Status Trap Escape & Fuel Diagnosis — skills/seth-godin-philosophy/references/prompts-v2/status-trap-escape.md
• Seth Godin — Strategic Clarity Engine — skills/seth-godin-philosophy/references/prompts-v2/strategic-clarity-engine.md