“The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job.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.I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin.The job is not the work.”

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About Seth Godin

American author, marketing expert, entrepreneur, former dot-com business executive

Seth Godin is an American author, marketing expert, entrepreneur, and former dot-com business executive. He is also known by the pen name F. X. Nine. Godin is widely known for his writing on marketing and business, and for his work as an entrepreneur in the internet era. His books and essays focus on how ideas spread, how organizations change, and how people make choices in a crowded marketplace.

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Linchpin

2010

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The Dip

2007

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Small Is the New Big

2006

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Permission Marketing

1999

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All marketers are liars

2005

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