1187: Moving For Good AND Goals Shape the Present, Not the Future by Derek Sivers on Personal Development

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🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Two posts from Derek Sivers on personal growth and goal setting. Episode 1187: Moving For Good AND Goals Shape the Present, Not the Future by Derek Sivers on Personal Development Originally a professional musician and circus clown, Derek Sivers created CD Baby in 1998. It became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100M in sales for 150,000 musicians. In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby for $22M, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. He is a frequent speaker at the TED Conference, with over 5 million views of his talks. Since 2011 he has published 34 books, including “Anything You Want” which shot to #1 on all of its Amazon categories. The original posts are located here: https://sivers.org/mfg & https://sivers.org/goals Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily episode 1187, moving for good.
0:04.8	And goals shape the present, not the future.
0:08.4	Both by Derek Sivers of Sivers.org and I'm your very own personal narrator, Justin
0:12.8	Mollick, reading to you from some of the best blogs on the planet.
0:16.4	I have two posts today coming from Derek Sivers, a popular writer,
0:20.0	speaker, business owner, musician, minimalist. He's a lot of things.
0:24.6	Let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.
0:30.9	Moving for good by Derek Sivers of Sivers.org
0:35.9	You are the way you are because of what you've experienced.
0:40.2	Your country, family, town, random circumstances and friends shaped the way you think.
0:46.8	If you grew up on the other side of the world, you would have a different set of values and thought patterns.
0:51.3	But if you keep experiencing the same things, your mind keeps its same patterns,
0:56.3	same input, same response.
0:58.8	Your brain, which was once curious and growing, gets fixed into deep habits.
1:03.7	Your values and opinions harden and resist change.
1:06.8	If you don't flex, you lose your flexibility.
1:10.0	You only really learn when you're surprised.
1:12.6	Unless you're surprised, everything is fitting into your existing thought patterns.
1:16.1	So to get smarter, you need to get surprised, think in new ways,
1:20.8	and deeply understand different perspectives.
1:23.8	With effort, you could do this from the converts of home.
1:26.6	But the most effective way to shake things up is to move across the world.
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