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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

149: Loving What I Used to Hate and My Loss by Derek Sivers

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

Optimal Living Daily LLC

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

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2016

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

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 149: Loving What I Used to Hate and My Loss by Derek Sivers (Happiness & Developing Self-Discipline). The original posts are located here: https://sivers.org/hate https://sivers.org/loss 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 149.

0:03.8

Loving what I used to hate.

0:05.2

And, my loss by Derek Sivers of Sivers.org.

0:09.3

Get ready to maximize your potential with Optimal Living Daily,

0:13.2

the podcast that brings you the best in personal development

0:16.2

and productivity every day of the week.

0:18.5

Your Optimal Life awaits.

0:20.4

Now here's your host, Justin Mollick.

0:22.9

Hello, hello, and welcome to Optimal Living Daily with your host, me, Justin Mollick.

0:34.1

The guy who's forcing himself to read out loud every single day on this podcast.

0:39.0

And I appreciate you listening, really, it means a lot.

0:42.2

And I want to give back to you, actually.

0:44.2

Yes, you listening right now.

0:46.2

Do you have a blog or a product or service that other OLD listeners would benefit from?

0:52.5

Or do you have some words that you want to share with this group?

0:55.5

I've decided to start a blog section on the companion site of this podcast.

0:59.4

And I'm taking guest posts right now.

1:02.1

So if you're interested in sharing something valuable and maybe spreading the word about

1:05.8

yourself or your business in the process, and possibly having the post read right here

1:10.1

on the podcast for even more exposure, come by oldpodcast.com and send me a message.

1:17.1

And I can give you details on what exactly I'm looking for.

1:20.7

And it's ever Sunday today, but like I mentioned last week, I'm kind of running low on

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