Reviews
Fun, easy to read and gave me a bunch of ideas to reflect on.
You can read it in a couple of days or over a flight.
A curated collection of deep insights in 1-2 page chapters, each with a single sentence to muse about all day. I’ll be returning to this one.
Outstanding, concise guide to exploring what's worth doing. Really provoked some great reflection.
Aslinda guzel bir kitap. Yazarin hayatina dair verdigi cok fazla ornek var bu zaman zaman bunaltici olabiliyor. Bunlar disinda orneklere degil metaforlara odaklaninca anlam kazaniyor ki zaten kitabin icinde de boyle bir bolum var.
No digging required. The gold nuggets are quickly and easily accessible in short snippets from every page. Lifetimes worth of advice distilled into 126 pages. The work is in the doing.
I have enjoyed every book, article and podcast by Derek Sivers and this is no exception. It is a short, but packed with wisdom, book, ready to challenge your thinking to your own betterment. I rate this book a: Hell Yeah :)
No digging required. The gold nuggets are quickly and easily accessible in short snippets from every page. Lifetimes worth of advice distilled into 126 pages. The work is in the doing.
Highlights
Are you holding back something that seems too obvious to share?
Ever the king of one-liner prompts, Sivers hits the nail on the head here. I wish more people would share their hard-earned learnings, and yet I constantly avoid (yes, with intent) doing so myself. You should read the entire essay: sive.rs/obvious
Nothing has inherent meaning. It is what it is and that’s it. We just choose to project meaning onto things. It feels good to make stories.
We’re clearly bad judges of our own creations. We should just put them out there and let the world decide.
(Seeking patterns in randomness is called apophenia.) I like to think that everything is a coincidence. Life feels more amazing to me if it has no meaning. No secret agenda. Beautifully random.
As soon as I catch myself blaming anyone for anything, I decide it’s my fault.
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year, and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
Ask myself what’s wrong in this very second. Am I in physical pain or danger? No. I’ve got mental pain, but that’s just me imagining things or remembering things. None of it is real.
People say that your first reaction is the most honest, but I disagree. Your first reaction is usually outdated. Either it’s an answer you came up with long ago and now use instead of thinking, or it’s a knee-jerk emotional response to something in your past.
Fish don’t know they’re in water.
How you do anything is how you do everything.
It’s liberating to speak in the past tense about what you’ve done, and only speak in the present tense about what you’re actually doing.
Your actions show you what you actually want. There are two smart reactions to this: Stop lying to yourself, and admit your real priorities. Start doing what you say you want to do, and see if it’s really true.
Our actions always reveal our real values.
If you were completely satiated, then what?