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This episode is brought to you by Your Clockwise Week—a personalized weekly structure built around your actual life, not an ideal one. If your week feels full but not fitting, you can learn more at mikevardy.com/yourclockwiseweek.
After decades of following his own interests, today’s guest Derek Sivers has gone down many interesting rabbit holes. With an ambitious title for his new book, ‘How To Live’, we explore what makes a good life.
Derek Sivers is best known as a writer, musician, programmer and the founder of CD Baby, an online CD store for independent musicians. For the past 12 years, he’s been living a nomadic lifestyle and pondered a lot about what makes a good life.
In this episode, we explore his new book he’s currently writing ‘How To Live’ – and how there is no one ‘right’ way to live. Derek’s life philosophy of being curious is infectious, and I enjoy going down a few rabbit holes with him in this interview. Join us as we explore how time is personal, setting creative constraints, and the surprising conclusion from his book. Get ready for a few Star Wars references too.
Talking Points
The reason why he wrote his new book ‘How To Live’
The role curiosity plays in his life
How setting constraints gives your freedom
Thinking beyond New Year’s Eve: how time is personal
The big phases throughout Derek’s life
Is Derek always having fun?
His relationship with email
Quote
“Constraints free you from the daunting prospect of infinite possibility”
Helpful Links
How To Live
American History X
The Listening Book | Amazon
Quiet | Amazon
The 4-Hour Workweek | Amazon
Akimbo podcast by Seth Godin
Conversations with Tyler
John McWhorter
The Art of Noticing | Amazon
The Good Place
Comedian
Hugo Jacomet’s YouTube channel
Salt | Amazon
Cod | Amazon
Curious with Josh Peck
Monthly Self-Expansion Project
Chris Guillebeau
Sivers.org
Want to discover some of the books mentioned on the podcast? Check out Scribd, my reading app of choice.
If you enjoyed the episode, please leave a rating and/or review wherever you listened to the episode. Also don't forget to check out all of our podcast sponsors found on our podcast sponsors page.
And if you want to have easy access to the archives of the show and ensure you don't miss the new episodes to come then subscribe to the podcast in the app you're using.
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If this episode resonated, I’m exploring ideas like these more deeply in my upcoming book, Productiveness. You can follow along as it takes shape at mikevardy.com/productiveness.
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This episode is brought to you by Your Clockwise Week—a personalized weekly structure built around your actual life, not an ideal one. If your week feels full but not fitting, you can learn more at mikevardy.com/yourclockwiseweek.
After decades of following his own interests, today’s guest Derek Sivers has gone down many interesting rabbit holes. With an ambitious title for his new book, ‘How To Live’, we explore what makes a good life.
Derek Sivers is best known as a writer, musician, programmer and the founder of CD Baby, an online CD store for independent musicians. For the past 12 years, he’s been living a nomadic lifestyle and pondered a lot about what makes a good life.
In this episode, we explore his new book he’s currently writing ‘How To Live’ – and how there is no one ‘right’ way to live. Derek’s life philosophy of being curious is infectious, and I enjoy going down a few rabbit holes with him in this interview. Join us as we explore how time is personal, setting creative constraints, and the surprising conclusion from his book. Get ready for a few Star Wars references too.
Talking Points
The reason why he wrote his new book ‘How To Live’
The role curiosity plays in his life
How setting constraints gives your freedom
Thinking beyond New Year’s Eve: how time is personal
The big phases throughout Derek’s life
Is Derek always having fun?
His relationship with email
Quote
“Constraints free you from the daunting prospect of infinite possibility”
Helpful Links
How To Live
American History X
The Listening Book | Amazon
Quiet | Amazon
The 4-Hour Workweek | Amazon
Akimbo podcast by Seth Godin
Conversations with Tyler
John McWhorter
The Art of Noticing | Amazon
The Good Place
Comedian
Hugo Jacomet’s YouTube channel
Salt | Amazon
Cod | Amazon
Curious with Josh Peck
Monthly Self-Expansion Project
Chris Guillebeau
Sivers.org
Want to discover some of the books mentioned on the podcast? Check out Scribd, my reading app of choice.
If you enjoyed the episode, please leave a rating and/or review wherever you listened to the episode. Also don't forget to check out all of our podcast sponsors found on our podcast sponsors page.
And if you want to have easy access to the archives of the show and ensure you don't miss the new episodes to come then subscribe to the podcast in the app you're using.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
If this episode resonated, I’m exploring ideas like these more deeply in my upcoming book, Productiveness. You can follow along as it takes shape at mikevardy.com/productiveness.
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