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Derek Sivers

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“Yeah, I recently read a book I can recommend for anybody called What Everyone Should Know About Islam. And it was really good, and it finally understood about the different Sharia laws. And it's really congruent. I think more than anything, if I had to pick one word to give, it's amazing how congruent it is and what piece that can bring in a society where even the The government laws are aligned with the religious laws, which are aligned. Like everybody here agrees in this code. It's not a gray area. But you asked me the other day about, I said that I'm very influenced by the greater good doing things that even if it doesn't serve me personally or privately, if it seems like it's the right thing to do, I'll do what seems to be the right 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
“Probably the best elaboration is to tell people to go search for Sam Harris' moral landscape. The best TED talk I've ever seen. That is the one Sam Harris, the Moral Landscape So beautifully summarizes this idea of judging something morally objectively based on individual well being. So do you utilize it?”
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“These different ideas of what is the right and wrong thing to do are completely arbitrary and they change with geography. And so you get to kind of pick or choose and you can choose to fit into the local norms or sometimes you choose not to because you disagree with them. It goes the same with individuals and people. You're liberated from other norms. Can choose your own”
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“But in those moments, you have to ask yourself Do I agree with this rule? Especially if you travel the world, what's polite in Japan can be rude in New Zealand and vice versa?”
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“And at a certain point, you realize that you're free, you're liberated from that. But as long as you don't break the law, Even if people tell you you're a bad person, that it's not true. They're just saying that because of their rules or whatever. So this to me was a major turning point in my life, realizing that I was liberated from authority and from judgment.”
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“Bit so he remembers that he saw her come in five minutes after me. Now she's leaving five minutes after me. And he goes, this is not some stupid establishment. This is not, this is a very reputable hotel. I do not like this. No, you must not do I don't like this one bit. He was getting really angry. And I was so happy because not for the obvious. But like it was so liberating realizing that I've done nothing wrong. Nobody was hurt. This is fully like consensual. They were paid for their room. And even though he's angry, he can't get me in trouble. Like, I haven't broken the law. And I think that we so often, as kids, we spend so much of our life, the first half of our life, kind of deferring to authority and thinking that authority has power over us.”
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“So I went into the hotel, and whatever hotel it was, I'll just say Sheraton. And he was like, welcome to the Sheraton Hotel, you know, and I said, Hey, I'm here for one night. I'd like a room. And great, no problem. Okay, tomorrow breakfast will be served over here and such and such. And here's your room. And okay, he gives me my key. So I go up to the room and I text her the room number and she comes up five minutes later. So then we have fun for a few hours and it's great. But now it's 2.30 and it's time for me to go get my ferry. So this time we reverse it. I go down alone first and I go to the guy at the front desk. And I said, hey, I've decided to catch the four o'clock fairy. He's like, oh, is everything okay? Was there any problem? I said, no, no problem at all. Everything's great. Just decided to catch an earlier ferry. So paying in full, here it is. So he's charging my card. It's already done. He's doing the thing, but then he sees her walk by. And he goes wait a minute, I don't like this one.”
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“So, this matters because I said, hey, what do you think about getting a hotel? Few hours. She was like, well, we could. I was like, yeah, it feels kind of naughty, doesn't it? Like, yeah, but let's do it. Yeah, okay, you don't mind? She's like, but I can't be seen with you. She said, just on the chance that a friend of mine walks by, I can't be seen going into a hotel with some strange man. I said, okay, so here's what we'll do. I'll go into the hotel, I'll get a room. And then I'll text you the room number and you come up Minutes later, she said, Okay, good”
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“But we kind of regretted it. So then it was the third day, and it was the day that I was leaving. And there's this big kind of central park in the middle of central Oslo, and we're in the park. And housekeeping came at 10 a.m. I'm like, time to check out, time to go. And she was asking them in Norwegian, like, please, one more hour. And they said, no, get out. She's like, oh. So we go out to this park. And she's like, oh, God, I wish I could be with you. I wish she's like, God, I just so want to be with you. And I was like, damn, me too. It was like, I wish we could. And then I looked around and this park is surrounded. Like, you know, Sheraton, Hilton, Marriott. And it was 11 o'clock and my ferry was leaving it four o'clock. And there's one detail. She was just in the process of breaking up with her fiance.”
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“Oslo, Norway My band was on tour, and we were there for three nights, and for the first two nights there was this girl in the audience that was kind of making eyes at me on stage. And so the second night I went to go talk to her and we hit it off. And we hung out all night long and it was wonderful. But we didn't have sex.”
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“Behavior, right? But that's when I talk about like being who you want to be. We can't really address people who want to be psychopaths or who want to be damaging. Because then anytime you taught anybody how to do anything, how to fly a plane, hey, don't fly it into the World Trade Center is okay. How to drive a car, hey, don't drive it into a crowd of people, okay? You have to just understand that. We're talking about a tool, not your psychosis that might lead you to. Go ahead, person So I have a funny little story that felt almost too risque.”
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
“Somebody made this up, but I don't need to run this program. But if you do that, people are going to be upset at you. So somebody's going to get mad at you, and you have to know that even when they say you're a bad person for doing this, Have to know that that's not true either. And I have a cute story about 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
“But it's funny how many times the rules of the world are stated as if they're absolutely true. Like all applicants must submit their application through the usual channels and wait to hear from us. To be an expert in your field, you should have an advanced degree from a university. But someone made up these rules, and most people follow those rules, but they're not true. They're just not absolutely true. So I think that realizing they're not true gives you an incredible advantage Because you realize you can make up the rules. So, this is that matrix moment where the bullets are flying out, and he goes, wait a minute, this is just code.”
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“Of anything. So the number three is that rules and norms are arbitrary games. So this is the one where I can't help but think of, you know, your introduction to the world in four hour work week, giving so many wonderful examples of how you don't have to accept the world's norms.”
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“So, since no beliefs are true, I think this is liberating to realize that you can just choose whatever belief works for you now that helps you be who you want to be This is about personal empowerment. This is a little bit hacking yourself. If a certain belief will help you be who you want to be, right now, you don't need to keep believing it tomorrow. You could believe it for three minutes or three days or the rest of your life. You're going to find what you look for. So if you choose to believe something, you'll find evidence to support your belief.”
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“Because there's a potato We don't need to say it because there it is, it exists. So I think that whenever we say I believe such and such, it indicates that whatever we say next is not true.”
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“Genesis, nice word. So, no beliefs are true. When we say, I believe, it's an indicator that what we're about to say next is not true.”
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“Yeah, and everybody was grumbling, this sucks. And so he kind of went to the 20 people that were angry and said, hey, if I charter a plane, will you guys split the cost? And I said, yeah. So everybody else was angry. He looked at the same situation and said, this is great. Was kind of the launch of Virgin Airlines. No, not launch, you know what I mean?”
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“Because I'm saying it, it might not be true. So, number two, beliefs are placebos. So two people in the But neither one is true. No beliefs are true. In fact, you know, the little story of Richard Branson before there was Virgin Airlines, you've heard the tale that he was at an airport and a flight to somewhere was canceled.”
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“A message shown to one eye and they did something, then they asked the other eye, why did you do that? And every time people make up a reason, they don't know they're making it up. They give a reason why they did that and they feel completely confident that that is the reason why they did it. So to me, this is the most beautiful example, like, we actually don't know Talk about deep skepticism Radical doubt, you shouldn't even believe anything you tell yourself, even in your private diary, when you're saying, I'm not happy in this location, or I can't do this because of that, or I'm mad at so-and-so, you need to ask yourself, okay, that might not be true”
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“And so the split brain, patients, there are some people whose left and right hemispheres of their brain are not connected. So they've done tests on these people to say into their right ear, please get up and open the window. And they'll get up and open the window. And then they'll ask their left ear, or maybe it's their eye, why did you open the window? And they'll say, oh, it was just a little cold in here. I hope you don't mind. And they really sincerely to the core thought that's the reason they opened the window. There are a couple more examples of this”
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“I don't know the details of this. It was on the Econ Talk podcast that during brain surgery, they were poking around in there, and suddenly the woman started laughing. The patient started laughing and they asked, why are you laughing? And she said, oh, well, it's just, it's really funny the way that that curtain is hanging. And she really thought that the reason she was laughing is because that's the way the curtain was hanging. But it was actually because they were poking them.”
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“Their mouth said these words. You can't. Everything else is an interpretation or a projection. So we have to consider why people are saying these things. If you start to think why they said something, it helps to dispel it. You can say, oh, you know what? They're probably just believing whatever support the emotions that they want to feel right now. So if somebody has a belief that family is everything, maybe it's because that was something they told their kids because they want their kids to take care of them when they're older. So they want their kids to believe that family's everything. But they have a self-serving reason to believe that.”
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“Yeah, sorry. I'm holding up my middle finger with the back of my palm towards Tim. Even if people say things like, I hate you, does it mean that they hate you? No, it just, they said three words. That's all that actually happened.”
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“Because it makes you realize that everything else is just mental interpretation, right? Like, there we go. This is on the table. This is true Everything else, including watch this one Am I flipping you off right now? Like, am I angry at you right now? No, just because I'm”
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“But what's not true is it's good to do everything in moderation. Here's what's not true. Family is everything. Here's what's not true. My mother abandoned me. Here's what's not true. AI is the future. So all of these things people say them as if they're true or even when people make an excuse like, you know, I would be more successful if it weren't for my family, you know, or my location or whatever. People say these things as if they're an indisputably true fact. But to me, The only thing that's true are the things that both a cat and an alien, or let's say an octopus, would agree on.”
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“Number one. So, okay, I'm going to tell you the four bits first, and we'll use that to kind of make sure that we come back to this. So number one, almost nothing is objectively true Number two, beliefs are placebos. So you got to believe whatever works for you now. Number three, rules and norms are arbitrary games that can be changed. I'm preaching the converted. And number four, refuse ideology. You need to accept ideas individually. There's the structure. So number one, so almost nothing is objectively true. So here's what's true. My hand is on the table.”
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“Including little stories, is to play Morpheus, to help emancipate the listeners. So yes, I call this useful not true, but preach.”
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“We can talk freely without hitting record. So I had to think what's the most useful thing I could share with your audience that I've learned like in the last seven years since we last spoke, that thing that's made a biggest difference in my life, a superpower, a big, huge change. So to me, it's been, in short, skepticism. So if you wonder why I'm so happy, why I'm thriving, why I seem to be doing well, to me it's a lot of my happiness comes from this worldview that is radical doubt, it's skepticism. And so I'm going to give this the shorthand of calling it useful not true, but the visual for it is that moment at the end of the matrix movie when Neo realizes like those aren't bullets. This is just code. Remember all the bullets coming his way, just like, oh, wait, right None of these rules apply to me”
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“All right. So again, I'm addressing the audience for a second. I figure I'm coming on the podcast. This isn't just one of our random conversations. This is for the audience. There's a reason we're hitting record. It's for them.”
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“So I think about that with anything I post on my site, any of my books. It's like, all right, it's released. It's good enough.”
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“Yeah, unresolved decisions, sitting unresolved, sitting undecided for a long time. I feel the weight of those unfinished projects I'm trying to make it perfect. Feel the weight of those. I've learned the importance of just getting things done. Finishing. And to do that, you usually have to say good enough. At some point, I love the fact that we say somebody releases an album. You release a book because there's a wonderful double meaning in that word, right? Like, all right.”
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“I hadn't had a shower since yesterday. It was feeling greasy. It was distracting. But no, it's funny, I wasn't sure if you were going to say, so, as you were saying yesterday in the forest about sex.”
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“And thinking about this all the time or anything. We have spent many hours talking about sex while walking in the forests of New Zealand. Sex and relationships”
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“Publicly You're going to be just known for a few things that you're good at. Those things that you're not good at, nobody cares that you're not good at them. So just let it go.”
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“You know what I think If it's really fun. If you think it's just actually really fun to like, maybe some people set up their, let's just say they get into bread making and they're just like, I want to set like the best bread making. They're just having fun with it. Then great, they can maximize people who get really into high fidelity audio And they nerd out, and they know it's stupid usually And they're just like, I don't care. I want this thing with the gold plated cable connector. Right. And I think if you have fun optimizing Then it's worth it. If maximizing that is if the process is fun to you. I think that should be the barometer. But I think that saying enough, good enough, is a superpower.”
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“Wait, sorry to interrupt. You know what? If you were to hear Paul McCartney go, hey Jude, you'd be like, whoa, just to hear him sing two notes, to hear you go optimizing.”
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“That maximizers have been found to feel worse about the decisions they make. They look into every possible option. They try to make the best possible choice, but studies show that they feel worse about the choice they make, whereas satisfy may not make the absolute best possible choice, but they feel much better about the choices they make. Yeah, I think a lot of who I am is because of satisfying. And if I seem like I make weird decisions in life, for example, like not even continuing to pursue making money. Because I'm satisfying, like, I really took that lesson to heart and have shaped my life around it.”
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“The ending of that, where he says, Okay, I've been describing the problem. So what's a recommendation? And he says, satisficing. There's maximizing and there's satisfying.”
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“What's worth optimizing? That we don't need to optimize everything. It's okay to have some things be good enough. And so I'm so glad you brought up the paradox of choice by Barry Schwartz. I really fucking internalized that book.”
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“And then I thought, wait, I'm already happy. What am I going to be more happy tomorrow? No, I'm already happy. It's like, well, then why am I doing this? Why am I spending a bunch of money if I'm already happy? So I yanked it. So I didn't buy it. And here I am in this stupid house because it has no obstacles. Like it's warm, it's quiet. It's not suited to me perfectly. But that's okay. Like it doesn't get in my way. And then from there, I think how many other things in our life are we okay to just not optimize. Depends where you draw the line, right? Your romantic relationship, your job, your family, but nobody has the perfect family. Of their wishes. Our location, where you live, our diet, you have to kind of decide.”
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“Yeah, I have three pet mice. We were going to bring them out. It'll be distracting. I thought about getting rid of this house and getting a house that was more suited for me. And I actually put an offer on a place And it was a really nice place. It was at the end of Clyde Key Wharf. Out there, like in the water, and oh man, it was nice. And so it was like the night before my offer was accepted and it was a night before I was going to put down the deposit. It was going to be mine. I fell asleep that night thinking at first thought I was thinking I'm going to be so happy tomorrow.”
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“That helps you make the best decision for that moment, not what you thought would be the best decision earlier when you made planned, which was a prediction. I think about like, for example, this stupid house I'm in right now. So, this is my stupid house, everybody. I don't like this house. But here I am.”
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 said, Did you have a good day? And he said, I had a great day. And I said, all right, so what was your favorite thing today? And he thinks for a bit. And then he said, the cardboard box. And I was just like, I marveled at that. I was just thinking later, like, if I would have planned and said, no, we're going to the museum. Come on, it's an important museum for you to know, then he wouldn't have had this unoptimized experience and stumbled into the cardboard box. And so of course, you know, I think about life and I think about like that day as a metaphor for how we tend to make plans because plans seem to be the tool we use to make the most of our time. But that doesn't always make sense, does it? Because as you go through life, you keep getting new information moment to moment.”
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
“The show was about to begin in 10 minutes. And I said, Do you have any tickets? What are the best tickets you have? They had eight throw center tickets. They had two left. They're like, yeah, let's do it. Let's go see Wicked. So he left his cardboard box there. We went in and saw Wicked. And at one point he whispered to me, he said, Dad, I like the girl next to me. And I said, okay. And later I look over and he's holding her hand. He held her hand. They held hands. And so show is over. We go home and I tuck him into bed that night.”
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 walked around London in a cardboard box for like an hour and everybody would do double takes looking at him and he felt so cool in the cardboard box. And then at some point we found ourselves right in front of the West End musical wicked.”
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
“This is gonna be good on the train from Oxford to London and it was one of those days that looked like it might rain, it might not. So we made a plan on the train. I said, okay, if it's raining, we're going to go to the museum. And if it's not raining, we're going to the zoo. And he said, okay. So we got to Marliban Station in central London. We walked out and he said, you know, Dad, I don't want to go to the zoo or the museum. I said, what do you want to do? He said, just walk around. Sure? Yeah. Okay. We just walked around. So at every intersection, he said, let's go this way. I said, okay. And so he just led the way through London that day. We walked around for eight hours. So at one point he was jumping around park benches and met these kids from Croatia where they got into little tickling match. And another time in like a little alleyway, he saw this huge cardboard box that was like almost as big as he is. And he got into this cardboard box and wore it like a turtle shell.”
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
“Big fan, it's kind of funny that somebody listening to this thinks that we might be talking about tech and programming the whole time. But no, that was it. We're done. We're not going to talk about Unix command line terminal stuff anymore.”
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
“Toby and I have emailed since then about like joking about yeah sorry I didn't introduce you guys yeah Toby's it all worked out”
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
“A couple years later, I get this email from Toby saying, hey, not sure you remember me, the guy that taught you Rails? He said, could you introduce me to Tim Ferris? Because I've got this little e-commerce thing I'm doing. I was like, e-commerce thing. No. I was like, sorry, dude. I don't do that. No, I don't know. So I didn't introduce you guys. So I was thrilled later to find out that Toby's little e-commerce thing is Shopify or became Shopify.”
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