809: The Meaning of Life - Part 1 by Derek Sivers

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🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Derek Sivers' talk on the meaning of life narrated for you. This is Part 1 of 3. Episode 809: The Meaning of Life - Part 1 by Derek Sivers (Purposeful Living & Changing Routines). Originally a professional musician and circus clown, Derek Sivers 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. The original post is located here: https://sivers.org/ml Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 809, the meaning of life part one by Derek
0:05.7	Sivers of Sivers.org, and I'm Justin Malik, your very own personal narrator.
0:10.0	Welcome to Optimal Living Daily, OLD for short, where I narrate the best blogs I can get
0:14.5	permission from.
0:15.5	Today's post, well actually today's tomorrow's and Thursday since this is a three-parter,
0:21.2	is going to be interesting.
0:22.2	It's a transcript of Derek Sivers' very popular talk that he's given all over the world.
0:28.3	I won't even compare to how well he performed it.
0:30.6	It's his material after all.
0:32.3	So on that note, I'd encourage you to also check out his videos to see him perform it
0:36.0	himself.
0:37.0	It's worth it.
0:38.0	But I'll do my best with it.
0:39.0	So with that, let's get right to Part One and start optimizing your life.
0:47.0	The Meaning of Life Part One by Derek Sivers of Sivers.org
0:52.3	There's a true story about the student who showed up late to math class.
0:55.8	He copied the problem that was already written on the board, assuming it was homework,
0:59.6	and solved it that week.
1:01.3	Only afterwards did he find out that the teacher put it on the board as an example of an
1:06.0	unsolvable problem.
1:08.2	The question, what is the meaning of life?
1:10.6	Is the classic unsolvable problem?
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