You Can Be Indispensable – Book Review of Linchpin by Seth Godin is a post from: Everyday EMS Tips We need you to be you more than ever! Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? is the newest book by author, big thinker, and provocateur Seth Godin. In this book he calls us to recognize that we all have capabilities as artists, to fight our basic instincts to blend in and go with the flow, and to give gifts. I think you can do it and so does Seth. In the summary he describes his intent for the book: “All I wanted to do in this book was sell you on being the artist you already are. To make a difference. To stand for something. To get the respect and security you deserve.” This is attainable because we get to choose to do art and share our art as gifts. Let’s Do Art My kids are always asking to do art. “Daddy can we do an art project?” Or “Daddy can we paint.” They also ask to color, write, sing, and dance. Everyday they practice being artists. At some point in elementary school or junior high many of us got selected out of art. I can’t recall when I stopped doing art, but fortunately I stayed active in music – primarily because of my ineptitude with the trumpet. One of the watershed moments of my life was the sixth grade music teacher asking me – the last chair trumpet player – if I would like to try out the tuba because my lip and mouth structure would be better suited for the larger mouth piece. Maybe she thought I might actually have some talent or maybe she thought I would do less damage. I like to think the former. I made the switch and began wheeling home my tuba with a luggage cart-not a good way for a 6th grader to blend in

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