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Derek Sivers

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“Limit, I actually got oddly shy two minutes ago when you asked me who the third one was, because actually it's been you in the past”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like just the act of opening their email client and starting with it, going, okay, I want to ask Derek Sivers this thing.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sometimes even just asking, I get emails about once a week where somebody asks me a big question by email, and then at the end they say, actually, you don't even really have to answer this, just honestly asking you the question helped me get some clarity. Thank you.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, like what would, you know, what would Jesus do, right? Yeah, like people still do that. Like, okay, I'm not sure what to do. What would Jesus do? That's a perfectly good mentor.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Uh huh for his continued inspiration, and he sent me back a tiny little thanks. Seth God One, he doesn't exist We don't talk that often, but I very often think, what would Seth Goden say?”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You're right, I also get a lot of emails from people saying, I need a mentor. Will you mentor me? How do I find a mentor? And this is my answer. Like, it's all in your head. It's about the summarization of your situation, thinking of it from another person's point of view. You can predict what this person would say. If you're a fan of their books and their podcasts and their talks, you know what they would probably say, so do it yourself.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of summarizing everything and imagining what they would say. So the truth is, I haven't talked to my mentors in years, and one of them doesn't even know I exist. These are my mentors, and so this is how I think. It's kind of like, what's his name, Napoleon Hill talked about the mastermind or whatever? Like, he was like, you know, imagine Abraham Lincoln is there. What would Abraham Lincoln say? Yeah, totally. So I think that...”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Back with, but I include it in the initial summary of my situation. And then, after I've done that whole process, I don't need to bother anymore because the answer is now clear.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I'll address those in advance again so as not to waste their time. And then again, one last time I tried to predict, okay, well, now that I've addressed those, you have an answer.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like how you asked, I said something five minutes ago and you asked me a question Can you give me an example of that or how do you know this? So it's like Okay, I knew you were going to ask that. Here's my”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, right. What anybody would say to this? But yeah, what this mentor would say with that mentor would say. I know the way this guy thinks. I've read all his books. I know we've talked a lot. I know what he would say. So then I internalize that and I address those points that I'm predicting they would say. I'm going to address those in advance, again, to not waste their time”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Half page page. Yeah, half page. It's like bullet points for everything instead of paragraphs, right? As succinct as it can.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Here's what I do. I have three mentors. So anytime I had a little dilemma in my life, I write a really good description of my dilemma before I reach out to them because I don't want to waste their time, right? My mentors are VIPs. I don't want to waste a minute of their time. So first I write a really good description of the problem and then I summarize it. I summarize the context, the problem, I summarize my options, and I summarize my thoughts because I got to make this succinct. I don't want to send somebody a 20-page long email. So I have to make this as succinct as possible.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Consequences if you don't. But let's always be clear that you're choosing to do what you're choosing to pay your taxes because you'd rather not have the consequences. You're choosing to pay your employees. You're choosing to go into work. None of these things Things you have to do. He pushed back on that a few times and ultimately my value system is such that I most value personal growth. And it felt to me like I've been doing this thing for 10 years. The bigger learning growing opportunity for me right now is to do something else. It wasn't a matter of up or down. It was just different.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For good things about it. I unfortunately tried to listen to it on a long drive, and don't do that, it's hazardous. He's got a very soothing voice. But he starts out the story saying that at one point he just went to go lay on a park bench and basically just sat there for a couple years doing nothing. And it's a reminder that you don't have to do anything, that everything is a choice, that even paying your taxes, you don't have to. There will be...”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He just asked me a bunch of questions. He challenged the things I was saying. He basically did the cognitive behavioral therapy with me. He was pushing back on everything I was saying, challenging it. So, for example, I said. I'm sick of having all this responsibility. I don't want to have to do this and have to do that. He said, You don't have to do anything. I said, yeah, I have to pay my taxes. He said, no, you don't. I said, yes, I do. You have to pay your taxes. He said, no, Derek, you need to understand this. You don't have to do anything. What's they do to power of now that sat on a park bench? Who wrote Power of Now?”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then ultimately you just pick one or you craft one from a hodgepodge piecemeal from the other bits. And so in that moment, I was feeling really frustrated with a company. I'd been doing it for 10 years. I was feeling done, like somebody who's been painting a mural for many years or writing a novel for many years. And just you put the last brushstroke on, you write the last word, and you go, there, I think I'm done. That's how I was feeling. But somebody could have argued like, okay, go take a vacation and come back and get back to work. But I played off some different ways of thinking about it. And in that moment while driving down Pico Boulevard in LA while on the phone with a friend, I was like, that's it, dude. I think I'm done. I'm just going to sell the company. And I decided in that moment, and it wasn't fully congruent yet. It was just one of many options. But that night I went and called three companies that had been asking to buy mine. And I told them, yes.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Selling my company came in like an instant moment of clarity. Of, like, God, life is weird when it's like you can hold multiple philosophies in your head at the same time. Like, this is, sorry, this is the whole thing I was talking about with useful, not true, is these no beliefs are true. So you can hold them all in your head and just kind of Look at them like, well, here's one belief that says you should stick it out when the going gets tough. You need to stay in there and such and such and make that. There's another belief that says. The rewards to effort ratio is off that I'm spending so much effort in getting so little reward that you should stop. Another philosophy says, you can just hold these in your head and look at them as paths you could go down, as philosophies you could follow.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now, 13 years later, 12 years later since doing it, it did come in a little handy in COVID times. I will skip some family drama details, but there was a big pressure on me to move to America. And I was able to just kind of say, nope, can't do it. Don't play him?”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I always say, like, no, no, no. Once you renounce, you might never be allowed in that country ever again. That is not your country anymore. So I do not recommend it.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, not a flight risk. So I went back with the mountain of evidence and a letter from the doctor, from my ex-'s' dad saying, you know, please, he only has a few days to live, please allow them to come back. So I was granted the visa. But it was scary as hell. And so I think that people are often overconfident thinking like, hey, I'll just renounce my citizenship and it'll lower my taxes. I can go back anytime I want.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was living in Singapore at the time, and it was actually my good friend from Bangladesh that said, Derek, this is your first time being refused. She's like, I've been refused like five times. Look, here's how to do it. You can't just go to the embassy and say, give me a visa, please. You have to show a mountain of evidence that your life is in Singapore, that you have, tell them about your cat, that you have a job, that you have this, that you're on the board at this company, that you're speaking at the National University of Singapore”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it reduced the option. So there was something scary that happened just a few months after I renounced my citizenship, my ex, her dad was like on his deathbed and we needed to quickly get on a plane that night. But I didn't have visa. So I went to the US embassy to get a visa quickly, and they rejected me. And I was devastated because they just hand you a slip saying, no, you've been denied for a visa next. And the slip says you may not reapply, this decision is final. And, hey, useful, not true. I challenged that rule. I was like, all right, I think somebody just made that up. I'm going to go back and reapply anyway. So I went back with a mountain of evidence, and luckily they granted me a visa.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Handful moral note. So when people would ask me about it. My advice was always do not do it. In fact, it still is. Somebody just asked me last week. I was like, do not do it. Kevin Kelly had this wonderful saying, the best option is the option that gives you the most options. I love that. And under that wise advice, I think that no, you should not renounce your US citizenship because it's cutting off options. A lot of people seem to want it for tax reasons. And even that has, you need to look through that thoroughly. I did not do it for tax reasons. In fact, my taxes went up after I renounced because most of my income is still US sourced, so now that all gets taxed at flat 30% rate instead of before it was like part of a bigger picture. So yeah, my taxes went up.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I wanted to challenge myself to go forward and not go back. And after 40 years in America, I felt like, all right, I spent the first 40 years of my life here. I want to spend the next 40 out. But what I found is whenever things got tough, I kept wanting to retreat back to my comfortable California. So I thought, I need to burn the ships. So I did.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I renounced my U.S. citizenship in 2011. As a way of, I deliberately burned the ships. So, I have to explain this metaphor because I found that most people haven't heard this tale. We have all heard of burning the bridges. You burn the bridge when you destroy a friendship, a connection with somebody, the bridge between you and another person. But to burn the ships is a reference to some, I think, like a Spanish conquistador that had headed off with three ships to South America somewhere. And when he landed, there were thousands of Aztecs waiting to kill them and they only had a few hundred men. Of course, I'm messing up the details here, but he turned to one of his men and said, we must not retreat, burn the ships. The men need to know that we cannot go back. We must go forward.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I should sign up for college, and you're just like, you're right, I should. Oh my god, I just did. Even before you've convinced yourself, you can sign up that little form and take that first step to. The action, so I think I've done a lot of things like that in my life where to support a new belief, I will take an action first, and then we all have the desire to be congruent with the actions we've taken. It's like, oh, look, I'm this kind of person now. This is my belief now”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Cut off some options in my life as a giant leap. We can talk about that if you want, but small actions are big actions. You can take the action before necessarily internalizing it.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Need to escape where I am. For example, so then I need to just stack up evidence of this. So it's like once you've decided on the belief that it would be better for you to hold, you can always find evidence to support any belief, right? So you could just kind of stack up evidence. And then I find, you know, we're social beings. So talking with friends about it and asking their thoughts on this or telling them like, I'm starting to think this. And then friends, if they care about you and they support you will often give you other evidence to support the belief you want to have saying, you know, that's a good point. My friend Tracy such and such a this, and she had this happen. So yeah, I think you're right on with this new idea of yours. So friends support it and then you start to internalize it more and maybe it takes a few days and you take some baby steps to put it into action or a big giant leap to put this into action like you know some crazy things I've done in my life to”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I think you stack up evidence. So first, just writing in my diary about, I think I need to believe this. I think I need to believe that the place I'm in right now is a good place to be, not a bad place to be. I think that would be a more empowering belief for me, that I can use where I am to do what I want.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, right, right, that makes sense. Yeah So I recommend, and it's kind of the conclusion of the big arch I was on the whole useful, not true super skepticism thing, is you asked me. Last week. How do you change your beliefs? Like if you say, this is the belief I'm holding, this is the belief I'd like to be holding.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, do this. My fingers just fly in my head, you know. So later, I found out that this is similar to cognitive behavioral therapy. So I've been doing this for decades and now I just found out what it's called. So I just recently read a book on cognitive behavioral therapy and went, oh, this sounds like... What I've been doing.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, something I've said that sounds disempowering to me, like I hate it here, I can't do what I want here. I need to go somewhere else to do what I want. I'll just keep it general like that. Then I'll stop and ask myself, like, wait a minute. Is that true? Like, that sounds like a disempowering belief. Let me push back on that. I think that belief might be holding me back. So I'm constantly doubting everything I write, doubting everything I think, doubting everything I say.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that's that. So, no, I think I got the lucky roll of the dice, the DNA dice, but also there's another thing I've been doing since I was a teenager that I found out has another name too. So for my whole life, I very often open my diary and just put everything into there. I write what happened today, but also like the things that I'm thinking. And whenever I come upon a belief that to me feels like a disempowering belief, something that I say.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's totally different. See, that's pluralism versus monism. Like the monism is to say monism is this, it's mystical. The number one is somewhat like magical and mystical, you know, one love, one world. One answer, one way. It's very appealing, this idea of one. It's very upsetting to think that no, no, no, there are many. Answers and they conflict, and you can believe conflicting things at the same time. Sorry, I accidentally skipped answering your question about was it either, am I this happy or why am I this happy or why do I think I'm this happy”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, wow. Inception, yeah. Like, so the point is, I've been thinking that way since I was a teenager, and it wasn't till the age of 40. That I read an actual book on Stoicism. Whoa, this is how I think. But that being said, it's healthier to watch out for whenever you find yourself wanting to jump all in to an ism, even if it's just a book that you just read. And if you find yourself blindly kind of saying, all of this, this is me, this is how I'm going to live now.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“By Dale Carnegie, it was on my grandmother's bookshelf, and I read it when I was like 16. And so here I was thinking that up until two years ago, I would have said, or I did say, all the things that Stoicism says, I've been”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just read a couple years ago in Wikipedia or something that book was basically spouting stoic values. Makes perfect sense.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I read it with whoa. Oh my god, I thought this was just me. Like this is everything he's talking about. This is the way I've been thinking since I was a teenager. I don't know why I picked it up. Maybe I suspect I found out years later.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Notes. She said in one of her books that her studies have shown that most people's happiness is 50% DNA and out of the control and the other 50% is in their control. So the best we can do is just control that 50%. And so yeah, I think.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I went to go find other books on the subject. So she wrote a couple books on happiness. She's been studying happiness for decades.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do you know Sonia Lomb Okay, you know who she is? Oh, she wrote one of those books on happiness. After I read Stumbling on Happiness, I went, ooh, that was good. That was a good book.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And the people you do like, admitting that some of the things they say you're not going to adopt that. And when somebody does that, to me, that shows a stronger thinker, a clearer thinker, somebody who's looking at ideas individually instead of just saying, I'm all in on this. I am a such and such isst. I subscribed to this ism. That to me seems to be a jumping to a conclusion. It's a punt. It's like just deferring to the is”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think we should be skeptical of every ism. I think we should avoid isms, avoid ideology, and take ideas piecemeal and Which means, ideally, you should be open to somebody you don't like taking their good ideas from people you don't like.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So on that note, back to my whole like useful, not true, my radical, what did I call it, radical doubt, super skepticism?”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I think that's the problem with isms. Is that if you're trying to buy internet a system yet, it's all or nothing. And so. If the leader of a movement says something you don't like on social media, well, now the bubbles popped, you know, it's a fly in my dish. It's a hair in the meal. It's a poo in the pool. The whole thing is ruined. Drain the pool.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Outside of the US, Germany and Korea are my besties. But he found one thing he didn't like about you. And therefore, declared all 400 pages of this book to be trash.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not for everyone, just to be clear, but yeah. So something related to you happened to me on a plane years ago that I think is a good example of this, that long, long ago, I think it was 2008 or 2009, I was on a plane from Amsterdam to the US and I saw a guy reading four hour work week. I said, hey, great book. And he goes, it's trash, man. And I said, really? And he goes, this guy's full of himself. This book is trash.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But this idea of isms, ideologies, and subscribing, yeah, you tapped into that thing that we, what did you call it, the decision fatigue? It really helps decision fatigue to say, I'm all in on this. But I think that people do it to a fault where they Read a self help book and go, Oh, yeah, this is it, this is the answer. I'm following this now. Stoicism. Everybody's suddenly declaring themselves to be a Stoic.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We were going to say, well Yeah, for me personally, I guess I just, we have this gut feeling of what feels right and feels wrong, or sometimes you actually let your head rule that decision Say, you know what? I know that personally I might want such and such, but I know that ultimately that's, it's not that important. Or maybe the fact that I'm happy anyway affects a lot of my decisions. It's like, I don't need. Some million dollar thing to make me happy. I'm already happy. Like I've hit the maximum, there is no such thing as happier. I'm already there. So therefore, this million dollars should just go to people who can use it because that's for the greater good. Like that's how my brain honestly works.”
2023-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT