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Not so much a book - rather a set of 200+ blog posts. My advice is that you don't do as I did and try to sit down and read this as a complete work. It will benefit you more if you decide on a passage a day. Like The Daily Stoic - a series of meditations on creativity.As always, the wisdom is insightful and contemporary. Godin makes us think.
Like other people have already said, this isn't a book, just a bunch of random paragraphs slapped into a book, but if you want to be a writer you need to write says he, and he did, and he got my money, so I guess he wins this time.This book has the odd feeling of something an AI would write, the words all seem to make sense, but when you put the words together they somewhat fall flat most of the time. Also most of the examples I read didn't even make sense like: "Creating Jazz music is the same
One hour in... and yet to hear any content?Seth Godin is one of my favourite authors — Tribes was hugely influential for me. This book... was just meh. After one hour of listening I had to turn it off. I'm not quite sure what the point of the book was? Just seemed like random ramblings and fluff.
You have a unique contribution to make - work that only you can do, work that matters for people who need you. Think about all the artists - writers, moviemakers, entrepreneurs - who produce work that you love, work that you would miss if it were gone. That work is their gift, a generous contribution to our culture. Making change, by definition, means doing something that has never been done before, so it’s not guaranteed to work. Doesn’t matter; do it anyway - take the leap and embrace the prac...
Felt a little like the non fiction self help version of the movie Being John Malkovich or Momento. It's the kind of book that you finish and think, what the heck did I just read. Let me think about it for a while. I need to flip back through and see if I missed the plot. Was there a plot, or a point? Were there too many points? It seemed to bounce arround like a stream of consciousness leaving me to wonder what it was all about. I'll be reading one page, flip to the next, and wonder if I accide...
For a self-help book, this gets 5 stars. As a creative always seeking motivation and a profound reason to keep writing about the environment (in the face of not-good news), I found many great ideas here. Seth Godin just pounds again and again that what matters is showing up and doing the work, what he calls "the practice," without thinking about outcome. You just do the work. The word "shipping" in the title was quite confusing at first, especially because my husband is an oil painter and he's a...
Oof, gritting my teeth while I write this review because while I have enjoyed a lot of Godin's other books, not so much with this one. There's just not a lot of substance and it reads as a collection of his daily short blog posts, broadly grouped thematically. 10/10 on the core message, 5/10 on the delivery. I got more from the many, many podcasts and interviews Godin did for the release, as that's when he reduces the book to the key points. There's also a low-level up-sell to his Creative's Wor...
I thought that this book had some real nuggets of wisdom about the creative process and particularly about being a professional in a creative industry. However, I thought that the delivery of the content was repetitive and meandering making it difficult to follow and weakening the arguments the author made. Worth a read but if you can find a good synopsis or an interview with the author that might be a better bet.
Great book on the creative process. Loved the punchy-soundbites-style of writing that Seth incorporates in all his books. Time to make some noise.Would've been a 5-star, but it gets a little too repetitive. Could've been 75 pages shorter.
The Practice is a collection of aphorisms (which resemble mini-TED talks) about creating, sharing, and developing your art for distribution and consumption. The book seems meant to be taken in bites, few chapters being longer than two pages. That style is fine on its face, and there's certainly great value in brevity. But Godin lacks the depth of a philosopher, landing somewhere between dedicated camp counselor and tech bro speaking at a shareholder's meeting. Some of the lessons are worth imbib...
A book I meant to love. Instead, it struck me as close kin to "The War of Art". Pressfield got page time and offered a blub on the back. I did not like "The War of Art", a text that had all the thinly veiled "try harder" energy of a cis her white man who hasn't been to therapy. A one note carelessness about internal experience, a reduction in possible explanations for "resistance". Godin offers 200+ blog post vignettes on making creative work. And seems to miss that not all art is made for the s...
This was my intro to Seth Godin, and it was pretty good. While not a single, developing narrative, this is more of a bullet-point style manifesto. It extols the virtue of art: defined as "the generous act of making something better by doing something that might not work." He praises process: process saves us from the poverty of our intentions. While not every sentence is highlight worthy, several are. You will be the rare individual who reads this book and gets nothing from it.
