142: Show Success Before Asking for Help and A Warning to Anyone Receiving Advice by Derek Sivers

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 1 May 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Derek Sivers, originally a professional musician and circus clown, 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. Episode 142: Show Success Before Asking for Help and A Warning to Anyone Receiving Advice by Derek Sivers (The Secret to Success). The original posts are located here: https://sivers.org/success-first https://sivers.org/advice Books mentioned in this post: The Paradox of Choice The Wisdom of Crowds Decisive How We Decide Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily episode 142.
0:03.7	Show success before asking for help
0:05.8	and a warning to anyone receiving advice
0:08.7	by Derek Sivers of Sivers.org.
0:11.2	Get ready to maximize your potential
0:13.5	with Optimal Living Daily, the podcast
0:15.8	that brings you the best in personal development
0:18.1	and productivity every day of the week.
0:20.4	Your Optimal Life awaits.
0:22.3	Now here's your host, Justin Mollick.
0:24.9	Hello, hello, welcome to Optimal Living Daily,
0:33.3	Sivers Sunday edition.
0:34.8	I'm Justin Mollick, the guy who has lots of random life
0:38.0	parallels with Derek Sivers, who is the author
0:40.4	of today's posts.
0:41.7	And if you want to hear all about those random connections
0:44.0	to Derek Sivers and why started Sivers Sunday
0:46.2	in the first place, check out Episode 44, almost 100 episodes
0:50.6	ago.
0:51.2	It's a fun one.
0:52.7	But I'm getting a little worried,
0:53.9	because while Derek has a lot of posts,
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