156: Doing the Opposite of Everyone is Valuable, Some Will Always Say You're Wrong, And Don't Fight It by Derek Sivers

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🗓️ 15 May 2016

⏱️ 8 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 156: Doing the Opposite of Everyone is Valuable, Some Will Always Say You're Wrong, And Don't Fight It by Derek Sivers. The original posts are located here: https://sivers.org/contrarian https://sivers.org/wrong https://sivers.org/dont-fight-it 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 156, featuring three short posts from Derek Sivers of
0:05.7	Sivers.org.
0:07.0	Get ready to maximize your potential with Optimal Living Daily, the podcast that brings you the
0:12.4	best in personal development and productivity every day of the week.
0:16.6	Your Optimal Life awaits.
0:18.4	Now here's your host, Justin Mollick.
0:20.8	Hello Life Optimizer, welcome back to Optimal Living Daily, Sivers Sunday edition with your
0:31.6	host, me, Justin Mollick, the Microsoft Excel Nerd.
0:36.3	Happy Sunday.
0:37.3	And I mentioned this last Sunday, but I'll do it again because it could be huge for you.
0:41.6	I'm taking guest posts on oldpodcast.com.
0:44.7	So if you have a blog or just want to share some words with us, oldies, come by oldpodcast.com
0:50.1	and get in touch with me.
0:51.1	I'll give you details on what exactly I'm looking for.
0:54.3	And then you'll have a good chance of having your posts published on the site.
0:57.5	And then possibly even having me read it right here on the podcast, which is great exposure
1:01.1	for you.
1:02.1	So again, just come by oldpodcast.com and get in touch with me.
1:06.9	I might start reading guest posts every Sunday since I'm getting low on posts from Derek's
1:11.4	site.
1:12.4	And although I said that last week, I am totally serious about it.
1:15.0	I just happen to find three short posts from Derek Sivers that I want to read.
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