Seth Godin's New Book: "Linchpin" – A New Series of Posts
Disclaimer:
(I originally wrote this entry a month ago, & after a 2nd reading of Seth’s Book, I think I change my mind… Leave the middle 100 pages in, b/c there’s just amazing stuff in there. I just think you probably have to read it twice to catch it all. Seth’s just that brilliant.)
I love Seth Godin…
In my opinion, Seth is one of the most brilliant minds on the planet today. I have often said that Seth Godin is the kind of guy you want to happen to be on a cruise ship with you, because it would be fun to know that you could have 4 or 5 lengthy conversations with him over the course of a week.
I read everything Seth writes…
He’s just that awesome of a thinker for me. A Bit tough to understand at times, but awesome, nonetheless. Therefore, I was highly anticipating Seth’s new book, Linchpin being released in January. I had read all the blogs, pre-reviews, and pre-release hype. I literally ran out and bought it the first day it hit the shelves. Yeah Baby.
I gotta be honest with you…
It overwhelmed me and underwhelmed me then overwhelmed me again. A Few quick Bullet Points as to why that was the case:
- It took me longer to read then I would have liked. (Approx. 12 hours)
- It felt like a 125 page book that they made 239 pages.
- I got lost in the middle 100 pages.
- I almost gave up.
- I’m so glad I didn’t.
As usual, Seth has some brilliant concepts and points that I’ve never heard anyone articulate before. That’s just Seth being Seth, I guess. I feel like Seth wrote another great book that should have been the size of so many of his other “Small Sized” books like, The Dip, The Purple Cow, & Tribes to name a few.
If I were guessing…
I would think that Seth wrote a brilliant 125 page book and when he presented it to the publisher, they said, “Seth, bro, we love you but you can’t write another little sized book that we have to sell for a lot of money, in order for us to make a lot of money. Why don’t you go back and add 100 pages to it, then we’ll talk…”
I feel like…
every time Seth writes a “Big Sized” book, it loses something. I wish he would have written the first 75 pages, then just skipped to the last 50 pages and called it a day. Seth is brilliant. He’s blog-sized… that’s why we love him. So if you take the middle out of it, Seth’s book Linchipin is another winner-winner, chicken dinner for me!!!
So here’s what I want to do…
for all my Short Attention Span friends and readers out there. I want to spend the next several articles unpacking a half dozen of Seth’s greatest concepts & how I think they find relevance in our world, & particularly in the church world where I function, on a daily basis.
Preview of Tomorrow’s Entry:
“The entire system we have built our lives around has been turned upside down.”
– Seth Godin —
For the first time since the economy crashed in the summer of 2008, I feel like someone has actually explained on a higher level what has actually happened. Because it’s bigger than just a broken banking system and less jobs. The world has changed…
more to come tomorrow…