#370.5: Derek Sivers on Developing Confidence, Finding Happiness, and Saying “No” to Millions (Repost)

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🗓️ 11 May 2019

⏱️ 119 minutes

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This episode originally aired in 2015. You can find the show notes of the episode here.

“To me, ‘busy’ implies that the person is out of control of their life.” – Derek Sivers

Derek Sivers (@sivers) is one of my favorite humans, and I call him often for advice. Think of him as a philosopher-king programmer, master teacher, and merry prankster.

Originally a professional musician and circus clown, Derek created CD Baby in 1998. It became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100 million in sales for 150,000 musicians.

In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby for $22 million, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. He is a frequent speaker at the TED Conference, with more than 5 million views of his talks. Since 2011, he has published 34 books, including “Anything You Want,” which I’ve personally read 10+ times.

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0:00.0	optimal minimal
0:02.0	this altitude i can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking
0:06.3	when i'll see the person question
0:08.4	now i just see the perfect time
0:10.7	what's like in the island?
0:12.2	i'm a cybernetic organism living this show will never hit the skull
0:15.8	three two
0:18.0	ferris show
0:23.2	Derek welcome to the show
0:25.5	thank you
0:26.2	i am so excited to have you on this has been in the works for for many months
0:31.6	and now of course the timing is such and i'm going to read a bio and a short intro for you for
0:38.0	folks in a second but we're going to come back to the subject of fasting because i'm eight days
0:43.7	into a ten day fast and i was astonished to hear when we were chatting a day or two ago that you
0:49.3	have done something very similar if not the same so before we get to that though for everybody
0:54.1	listening uh Derek civors one of my favorite humans so excited to have them on the phone
1:00.2	and uh here is a sketch of his background originally a professional musician in circus clown
1:06.5	Derek civors you should say hi to him at civors on the twitter that is syv irs created cd baby
1:14.2	in 1998 became the largest seller of independent music online with a hundred million in sales for
1:18.7	hundred and fifty thousand musicians in 2008 Derek sold cd baby for twenty two million
1:23.4	giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education he is and has been a frequent speaker
1:29.1	on the ted conference circuit with more than five million views of his talks and since 2011 he
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