Seth Godin - Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? (2010)

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Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

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At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

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Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed.

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The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.

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You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

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Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

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Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.

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Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

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If you accept that human beings are difficult to change, and embrace (rather than curse) the uniqueness that everyone brings to the table, you'll navigate the world with more bliss and effectiveness. And make better decisions, too.

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A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.

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If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one.

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Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

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Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.

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Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.

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You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.

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Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.

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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

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The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.

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The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It's the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you're writing, because the teacher won't like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.

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In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.

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The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship.

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Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.

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The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

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You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.

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All the creativity books in the world aren't going to help you if you're unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

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Nothing about becoming indispensable is easy. If it's easy, it's already been done and it's no longer valuable.

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An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

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Emotional labor is available to all of us,
but it is rarely exploited as a competitive
advantage.

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If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

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The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.

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