Book: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Author: Seth Godin
The Pearls
1) Inspiring if you create content for a living, “Linchpin” is about creating your own success by putting in the emotional labor of an Artist in everything you do. It’s an amalgam of other, more innovative works, like “The Gift” and “The War of Art.”
2) The first half of the book is an argument for becoming a Linchpin. If you don’t need to be convinced that you are awesome, then start at page 150 to get into Art as a gift.
3) It feels contradictory, on the one hand Godin disparages the industrial systems of better, faster, cheaper. On the other he praises people who master the system and victimize the other folks who can’t ( or won’t) work their way out. From page 86, “The real artists are the people who dreamed up this system…But not the painters. They’re virtually helpless victims of a large system that pays them very little for the talent they bring to work each day.”
The Transcript
Talmadge Boyd : Hi, everyone this is Talmage Boyd and I just got done reading LINCHPIN by Seth Godin and Linchpin is about success.
Talmadge Boyd : It’s about engaging the emotional labour of an artist in order to escape being a cog in the mass industrial complex.
Talmadge Boyd : He does spend the first half of the book making arguments for Linchpin, so things really don’t start getting good until about page 150 where he brings in the gift culture using art as a gift, which is really not a new idea but it is an integral part of this argument for being a Linchpin.
Talmadge Boyd : I find the book inspiring yet, contradictory because in one instance he will say that we need to throw away the complex but at the same time the artist, the true artist engages those systems and actually creates systems that victimize the very people that are subject to the complex and need to escape. So I find that contradictory but you know I am not a great smart guy like Seth Godin.
I just read books.
Credit Where Credit Is Due
Title:The Benefits of Looking Ahead
Source: www.archive.org
Collection: Prelinger Archives
Producer:Coronet Instructional Films
Title: Design For Dreaming
Source:www.archive.org
Collection: Prelinger Archives
Producer: MPO Productions
Title:Applause
Source:www.archive.org
Collection: Ourmedia
Producer: Apple
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