
How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion

Get your security not from being an anchor, but from being able to ride the waves of change.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Always tell the real truth, or they’ll never know the real you, so you’ll never really feel loved.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Pain’s power relies on surprise. If you expect it, it’s weaker. If you choose it, it’s gone.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
The easy road leads to a hard future. The hard road leads to an easy future. Steering towards the pain is how to live.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Be a perpetual traveler, living out of a suitcase.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Schedule everything to ensure balance of your time and effort.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
In the end, the highest praise of a life is to say that person “made a difference”. Difference! Do you hear that word? Difference refers to what’s changed.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Making memories is the most important thing you can do with your life. The more memories you create, the longer and richer your life feels. Making memories is how to live.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
What does it mean to live a good life?
Here’s how to live: Do nothing.