Derek Sivers Tag Archive

Win by not losing

(Excerpt from How to Live by Derek Sivers) For something to succeed, everything needs to go right. For something to fail, only one thing needs to go wrong. Don’t try to be more right. Just be less wrong. Avoiding...

December 26, 2021| Inversion, Life, Success Read More

Shallow and deep happy

(Excerpt from How to Live by Derek Sivers) Shallow happy is having a donut.Deep happy is having a fit body. Shallow happy is what you want now.Deep happy is what you want most. Shallow happy serves the present.Deep...

December 26, 2021| Life Read More

Choose good problems to solve

(Excerpt from How to Live by Derek Sivers) Since you can’t avoid problems, just find good problems. Happiness isn’t everlasting tranquility. Happiness is solving good problems....

December 25, 2021| Life, Success Read More

Overcome the pain to get what you want

(Excerpt from How to Live by Derek Sivers) Everything good comes from some kind of pain. Muscle fatigue makes you healthy and strong. The pain of practice leads to mastery. Difficult conversations save your...

December 24, 2021| Inversion, Life, Success Read More

Do something for love and something for money

(Excerpt from How do you do what you love and make money by Derek Sivers) First: balance. You’ve heard about balancing heart and mind, or right-brain left-brain, or whatever you want to call it. We all have a need for...

August 10, 2020| Life, Yin Yang Read More

Getting someone’s winning lottery numbers

(Excerpt from Beware of Advice by Derek Sivers) When successful people give advice, I usually hear it like this: “Here are the lottery numbers I played: 14 29 71 33 8. They worked for me!” Success is based on so...

August 9, 2020| Life, Survivorship Bias Read More

Hell Yeah! Otherwise No!

(Excerpt from Anything You Want by Derek Sivers) If you’re not saying “HELL YEAH!” about something, say “no.” When deciding whether to do something, if you feel anything less than “Wow! That would be...

September 8, 2019| Focus Read More

$15 for a great idea. $1m for great execution

(Extract from Anything You Want by Derek Sivers) AWFUL IDEA = -1 WEAK IDEA = 1 SO-SO IDEA = 5 GOOD IDEA = 10 GREAT IDEA = 15 BRILLIANT IDEA = 20 NO EXECUTION = $1 WEAK EXECUTION =...

September 8, 2019| Execution Read More

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