296: Confidence Required and Character Predicts Your Future by Derek Sivers

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🗓️ 2 October 2016

⏱️ 10 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 296: Confidence Required and Character Predicts Your Future by Derek Sivers (Self Help & Personal Development Podcast). The original posts can be found here: https://sivers.org/confidence https://sivers.org/character 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 episode is brought to you by Lionsgate Plus. The third season of a Lionsgate Plus original
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0:10.8	Follow Catherine the Second, played by Elle Fanning and Peter the Great, played by Nicholas
0:14.5	Holt, as they hilariously attempt to make their marriage work after some seemingly insurmountable
0:18.8	problems, from attempt to murder and the imprisonment of close friends to their never-ending
0:22.7	legal responsibilities. The Great, season 3 is available to stream on Friday July 14 exclusively
0:28.2	on Lionsgate Plus.
0:59.2	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 296 and I'm doing something a little different
1:04.4	and jumping straight into the two posts today, so here we go. Confidence required by Derek
1:09.8	Sivers, entrepreneur who sold his business for over 20 million dollars and gave away
1:13.7	the proceeds to charity and author at civvers.org.
1:18.4	Most of the time we are working hard, head down, using what we know. We get better and
1:22.8	better at it. We make little improvements and keep working. Our expertise and confidence
1:28.0	keeps increasing. We can't afford to stop and question everything, we can't go back
1:32.0	to school, we have work to do, until we don't.
1:35.9	Last year, I left my company and decided to start a new one. I wanted to replace my old
1:41.0	thoughts with new ones. I had been working hard doing one thing in one mindset for 10
1:45.9	years and needed to install a new operating system in my brain. I read a lot of books
1:50.6	on business, social psychology, management, behavioral economics, investing, cognitive
1:56.2	biases, crowds, marketing, networking, learning and communication. But each book that made
2:01.9	me feel smarter, aha, I think I understand the world better now. Also made me feel
2:06.7	dumber. Wow, I've been an idiot, it's surprising I survived at all. For example, when I read
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