810: The Meaning of Life - Part 2 by Derek Sivers

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

Optimal Living Daily LLC

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

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Derek Sivers' talk on the meaning of life narrated for you. This is Part 2 of 3. Episode 810: The Meaning of Life - Part 2 by Derek Sivers (Life's Purpose & Perspective). 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 810, the meaning of life.
0:04.4	Part 2 by Derek Sivers of Sivers.org, and I'm Justin Mollock, your narrator,
0:09.0	where I find the best blogs in the world related to personal development,
0:12.3	productivity, and minimalism mostly.
0:14.6	And I get permission from the authors and simply narrate them for you.
0:18.1	Really quick, it's the last day of the month.
0:20.0	That means we're doing a book giveaway tomorrow to a random person on our weekly newsletter,
0:24.4	so if you're not part of that yet, now's a great time to join.
0:27.8	Join before midnight to be entered.
0:29.7	You can do that at oldpodcast.com.
0:32.8	And today's narration is part 2 of 3, a transcript of a performance, actually.
0:37.6	If you knew here, I'd recommend listening to yesterday's episode first.
0:40.6	But if you're all caught up, let's get to it and continue optimizing your life.
0:48.9	The meaning of life, part 2, by Derek Sivers of Sivers.org.
0:54.5	Life is choice.
0:56.9	Some say life is choice.
0:58.9	Life is all about choice.
1:00.5	You make 100 little choices a day and 100 big choices in your life.
1:04.8	These choices change your entire life.
1:07.7	Your life is created by your choices.
1:10.0	Therefore, life is choice.
1:13.0	So if life is choice, the way to have a good life is to make good choices.
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