
How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion

These future people are your responsibility now.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Most actions are a pursuit of emotions. You think you want to take action or own a thing. But what you really want is the emotion you think it’ll bring.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
While everyone else is nervously preparing, you jump right in, unafraid to fail.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Love your partner, but don’t need your partner. Need is insatiable. Need destroys love.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Talk with people you usually avoid. Pursue subjects you know nothing about, and experiences unlike anything you’ve done before. If you’re not surprised — if you didn’t feel your brain changing — then you didn’t really learn.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Don’t depend on any company, especially not the big tech giants.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
When you get older, time flies by, forgotten, because you’re not having as many new experiences.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Let the random generator decide what you do, where you go, and who you meet.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Your job is not just to act, but to tell a fascinating story of how you did so, and inspire others to do it.