I was reading the article Iraq Comes Home: Soldiers Share the Devastating Tales of War.

It’s an article about U.S. soldiers sharing their life (which mostly fell apart) in Iraq as well as after returning home. if you’re looking for a perspective that most mainstream media usually filters out (the truth), i strongly recommend you to read the article.

Apart from the soldier’s stories about how mission in Iraq ruin their life, a quote from U.S. soldier Michael Goss caught my attention, and i repeated the paragraph a few times…

I have PTSD. I know when I got it — the night I killed an 8-year-old girl. Her family was trying to cross a checkpoint. We’d just shot three guys who’d tried to run a checkpoint. And during that mess, they were just trying to get through to get away from it all. And we ended up shooting all them, too. It was a family of six. The only one that survived was a 13-month-old and her mother. And the worst part about it all was that where I shot my bullets, when I went to see what I’d shot at, there was an 8-year-old girl there. I tried my best to bring her back to life, but there was no use. But that’s what triggered my depression.

Perhaps this explains why terrorist became terrorist. not all, but at least a big sum of them, i guess.

No one whacked my mind as hard as Seth Godin besides Anthony Robbins.

Seth stands as one of the best selling author and most influential business thinker in the world. heard of the book titled Purple Cow? that’s his book. heard of squidoo? he’s the original squid who started the website. it’s okay if you dont know all these… i didn’t knew him that much until i came accross his blog and his book “Small is the new big”.

I’ve been reading this book for free at Borders. the book is so interesting that eventually i got hooked up and digged my wallet to buy it. i can actually complete the book at Borders for free but i rather to own it so i can read and read again when i am stucked, when i faced bottle neck, when i need new ideas…

So yes, actually this post is about Seth Godin’s book - ‘Small is the new big’.

What’s in the book
184 articles, compiled from his blog writing thru out the past 8 years. as the beginning of the book said, this book is not about narrative research, instead, it’s an interesting business book that share Seth’s business thoughts and rants around the dotcom.

My favorite part
One the articles that i enjoyed the most is his takes on the ‘local max’ issue, you can read about it at here: Understanding the local max. some others that give new breaths are:

• “Maybe,” Getting people not to say
• Small is the new big
• Safe is risky

So, go read this book, if…

• You want the same whack that i got from his writing.
• You wish to know the next major wave in web marketing.
• You are brainstorming new remarkable business idea.

Go buy the book!

Where else? get the book at Amazon as low as $12.11!
$12.11 for used book, $25.95 $16.35 for new book - not too much for a book that can changes your mindset entirely about how Internet biz works. go get it, i bet you’ll enjoy the book as i did.
Small player - soufulow - wishes you ‘Happy Reading’!