Withers Without You

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I’m sure you, like I, have read one or two blog posts, tweets or Facebook statuses about how everything is different now. Social media is x and y, the internet is this and that and you can be rich or will be poor or your job and/or company will not be the same tomorrow as it was ten years ago.

This is all true, but the delivery of this heart breaking news is often given in a harsh, corporate language, preached to the masses from a proverbial pulpit and the information, as true as it may be, often lacks that personal and practical direction and encouragement that lessens the bruises left by the corporate bug that just swept you over.

Seth Godin’s daily blog posts (which this blogger receives by email) are a rigid mix of the latter but his recent release “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable” will hold a place in my bookshelf and heart as the influence it’s had on my personal direction is like no other.

It’s not told me everything else I knew and it’s not regurgitated from every other leadership, secular or Christian, motivational book that I’ve felt so bored reading.

Seth has presented an opportunity for this blogger, and for yourself if you choose, to forget some lies and to learn some truths.

An excerpt out of the book, I love it’s fast paced and easily digestible style:

You have been brainwashed by school and by the system into believing that your job is to do your job and follow instructions. It’s not, not anymore. Everyone has a little voice inside of their head that’s angry and afraid. That voice is the resistance—your lizard brain—and it wants you to be average (and safe). If you’re not doing as well as you hoped, perhaps it’s because the rules of the game were changed, and no one told you.

Linchpin is a well written and easily read book, that drives the reader through and leaves you satisfied and encouraged, not with your apparent lack of insight into the world today, but with the platform presented before you that is laden with opportunity like the underneath of a Christmas tree on the morning of December 25th.

Seth Godin explains Linchpin best in his own words “the reason I wrote Linchpin: If you want to change people, you must create enough leverage to encourage the change to happen.”

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