Seth Godin asks this question - If value is created by what you choose to do (as opposed to what you were born with), then is the essence of becoming a linchpin a choice?

Deciding to overcome the anxiety (false fear) associated with leading and connecting is the choice that few are willing to make.

In the new Seth Godin book Linchpin, Seth shares his unconventional wisdom to an age old issue...

How To Break Through Our Fear and Live The Life We Are Created to Live.

Seth Godin talks in this chapter about gifts, and the culture giving these gifts creates. Art is a gift. A real gift, not part of a deal, not a transaction entered into with reciprocity in mind. The culture of gifts has a long history on this planet, and understanding how it brings people together is a critical step in becoming indispensable.

What causes the resistance to becoming a Linchpin? It turns out that it's biological! Deep within your brain lies the amygdala, the lizard brain. It sets out to sabotage anything that feels threatening, risky, or generous. Until you name, recognize, and deal with the resistance, you will stay frustrated.

Troy Dooly digs into Seth Godin's belief, "the only way to get what you'er worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply."

The linchpin is an individual who can walk into chaos and create order, someone who can invent, connect, create, and make things happen. Every worthwhile institution has indispensable people who make differences like these.

The scam is that just about everything you were taught in school and by the media was an invented myth, a fable designed to prep you to be a complaint worker in the local factory. School exists for a reason, but that reason might not be what you think it is.

Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organizations. Like the small piece of hardware that keeps a wheel from falling off its axle, they may not be famous but they're indispensable. And in today's world, they get the best jobs and the most freedom.

Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organizations. Like the small piece of hardware that keeps a wheel from falling off its axle, they may not be famous but they're indispensable. And in today's world, they get the best jobs and the most freedom.

Do you want success? More success than you have now? And even more success than you ever imagined possible?

Darren Hardy, reveals how to achieve personal success in his book The Compound Effect. Finally just the truth on what it takes to achieve personal success, by someone who have done it personally!