How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Recognize your desire to be entertained by life, and break the habit.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Your identity. Your meanings. Your trauma. They’re all based on the core idea that you’re in a continuum, living a story. But there is no line between moments in time.
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
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
Pursuit is the opposite of depression.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Nostalgia is memories minus the pain.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Suspend all judgment when creating the first draft. Just get to the end. It’s better to create something bad than nothing at all. You can improve something bad. You can’t improve nothing.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Your mutual commitment gives you the security to weather the storms, knowing they won’t destroy the relationship.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Here’s how to live: Get rich.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
If someone else innovated in obscurity, they didn’t make an impact.