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How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Your self-control is highest in the morning and diminishes during the day, so review your book’s rules every afternoon.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
To get rich, don’t think about what’s valuable to you. Think about what’s valuable to others.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Changing the world includes changing yourself. Change your beliefs, preferences, acquaintances, hobbies, location, and lifestyle. Your only constant habit will be looking for what else to change.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Everyone wants to be with someone who’s having more fun. At every moment in life, choose whatever action or angle amuses you. Laughing at life is how to live.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Success in business comes from helping people — bringing the most happiness to the most people.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
You can’t be free without self-mastery.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
If someone else innovated in obscurity, they didn’t make an impact.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Boring industries have little competition, since most people are seeking status in glamorous new fields. Find an old industry and solve an old problem in a new way.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Don’t just express yourself. Discover yourself. Create questions, not answers. Explore whatever excites you most.