Derek Sivers on What It Means to Fail
Derek Sivers has lived many lives. He has been a musician, producer, circus performer, entrepreneur, speaker, and book publisher. His TED Talk, “Weird, or just different? [https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_weird_or_just_different]”, has been viewed more than 3.5 million times. His book Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur [https://amzn.to/2Y2bvg5] shares everything he learned from starting, growing, and selling the company CD Baby.
You can say hello to Derek at https://sivers.org/contact [https://sivers.org/contact].
In this episode Derek and I discuss:
* How Derek cultivated a practice of questioning assumptions
* Why Derek has a Making Room, not a Living Room
* What a controversial blog post taught Derek about handling criticism
* Why you should distance your private persona from your public persona
* What a failed marriage taught Derek about the meaning of failure.
* Why you should separate your decisions from the outcome of those decisions
* How Derek cultivates calm in his life
References
* How to ask your mentors for help [https://sivers.org/ment]
* “7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails [https://sivers.org/rails2php]”
* Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking [https://amzn.to/3cOTlCI] by David Bayles and Ted Orland
* The Man with One Red Shoe [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKUqdMHoPNQ] starring Tom Hanks
My book, Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life, is now out (Amazon [https://amzn.to/31GySdH], Barnes & Noble [https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/think-like-a-rocket-scientist-ozan-varol/1132821538?ean=9781541762596], Bookshop [https://bookshop.org/books/think-like-a-rocket-scientist-simple-strategies-you-can-use-to-make-giant-leaps-in-work-and-life/9781541762596]).
The book is already a #1 bestseller on Amazon.
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