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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

261: Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset and I'm a Very Slow Thinker by Derek Sivers

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2016

⏱️ 9 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 261: Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset and I'm a Very Slow Thinker by Derek Sivers (Personal Development & Mindfulness). The original posts can be found here: https://sivers.org/mindset https://sivers.org/slow 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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This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 261. Fixed Mindset vs Growth Mindset. And I'm a

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very slow thinker by Derek Severs of Sivers.org.

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Get ready to maximize your potential with Optimal Living Daily, the podcast that brings

1:14.9

you the best in personal development and productivity every day of the week. Your Optimal Life

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awaits. Now here's your host Justin Mollick.

1:23.4

Hey hey hey, welcome to Optimal Living Daily, the blogcast, podcast and audio blog. And

1:34.3

sometimes audiobook. But not today. Today is Sivers Sunday, which is something that I haven't

1:38.2

done in a while. Because his posts tend to be really short and I've already read most

1:42.8

of the ones that fit with the premise of this show. But there is a brand new one on his

1:46.8

site that I'm going to read to you plus an older one. But before we get into it, I do

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