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Books like Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
The best books like Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? are The War of Art, Show Your Work!, and Big Magic. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin is about work, creativity, indispensability. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The War of Art
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Steven Pressfield · Self-help
The War of Art is Steven Pressfield's short, blunt manual for anyone who creates — or wants to create — and finds themselves blocked, procrastinating, or unable to start.
Shares creativity and resistance with Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?.
Read the summary → - Show Your Work!
- Big Magic
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Elizabeth Gilbert · Self-help
Big Magic is Elizabeth Gilbert's manifesto for living a creative life — not as a professional artistic career but as an orientation toward existence.
Both dig into creativity.
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- Ego Is the Enemy
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Ryan Holiday · Self-help
Ego Is the Enemy is Ryan Holiday's argument that ego — the inflated sense of our own importance, the need to be seen and validated — is the most consistent obstacle to doing meaningful work and living well.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Turning Pro
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Steven Pressfield · Self-help
Turning Pro is Pressfield's follow-up to The War of Art, taking the Professional/Amateur distinction and developing it into a full examination of what the shift actually looks like — and what it costs.
Shares creativity and resistance with Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?.
Read the summary → - Creative Selection
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Ken Kocienda · Business
Creative Selection is Ken Kocienda's first-hand account of how software gets made at Apple during the period when the iPhone and iPad were born.
Both dig into creativity.
Read the summary → - Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace · Business
Creativity, Inc.
Both dig into creativity.
Read the summary → - Hegarty on Advertising: Turning Intelligence into Magic
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Hegarty on Advertising: Turning Intelligence into Magic
John Hegarty · Business
John Hegarty co-founded Bartle Bogle Hegarty in 1982 and spent four decades creating advertising that, at its best, genuinely shifted how people thought about brands.
Both dig into creativity.
Read the summary → - 1984
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George Orwell · Philosophy
Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a future England called Airstrip One, governed by the totalitarian Party under the figurehead Big Brother.
Both dig into resistance.
Read the summary → - A People's History of the United States
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn · History
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, first published in 1980, retells American history from the perspective of those who rarely appear in conventional textbooks: Native Americans, enslaved people, industrial workers, women, immigrants, and dissidents of various kinds.
Both dig into resistance.
Read the summary → - Art as Experience
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John Dewey · Philosophy
Art as Experience, published in 1934, is John Dewey's attempt to rescue aesthetics from the museum pedestal and return it to ordinary life.
Both dig into creativity.
Read the summary → - Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King
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Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King
Lloyd Bradley · History
Lloyd Bradley's Bass Culture is the definitive popular history of Jamaican music from the late 1940s through the 1990s, tracing the full arc from mento and ska through rocksteady, reggae, dancehall, and ragga.
Both dig into resistance.
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Books like Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?: quick answers
What are the best books like Linchpin: Are You Indispensable??
The best books like Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin are The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday, Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, such as work, creativity, indispensability.
What should I read after Linchpin: Are You Indispensable??
A natural next read after Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? is The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Shares creativity and resistance with Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?. Other strong choices are Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday.
What books are similar to Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin?
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? centers on work, creativity, indispensability. Books with a similar feel include The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday, Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield, Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
