366: Tilting My Mirror (Motivation is Delicate) And Kurt Vonnegut Explains Drama by Derek Sivers

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🗓️ 11 December 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 366: Tilting My Mirror (Motivation is Delicate) And Kurt Vonnegut Explains Drama by Derek Sivers (Inspiration). The original posts can be found here: https://sivers.org/tilt https://sivers.org/drama 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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0:29.5	ready to wind down and relax.
0:32.9	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 366, tilting my mirror, motivation is delicate, and
0:39.2	Kurt Vonnegut explains trauma.
0:40.8	And I'm Justin Mollock, happy Sunday and day after the big Episode 365, starting a brand
0:46.3	new year of Optimal Living Daily where I read to you every single day from some of the
0:50.2	best personal development bloggers I can find, just like an audiobook, with a permission.
0:54.3	And I haven't read from Derek Sivers in a long time, but that's his fault.
0:58.8	His posts are really short and rare, so I started getting low on posts that would work
1:02.5	for this format, but he wrote another short one so I'm going to read you two posts today.
1:07.5	Super bonus for you, and with that, let's hear these posts as we optimize your life.
1:17.0	Tilting my mirror, motivation is delicate, by Derek Sivers of Sivers.org.
1:22.9	Motivation is delicate.
1:24.4	When you notice your motivation dying, you have to seek out the subtle cause.
1:28.0	And a simple tweak can make all the difference between achieving something or not.
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