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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

838: Push, Push, Push. Expanding Your Comfort Zone And After 15 Years of Practice by Derek Sivers

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

Optimal Living Daily LLC

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

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Two posts from Derek Sivers on personal growth and improvement. Episode 838: Push, Push, Push. Expanding Your Comfort Zone And After 15 Years of Practice by Derek Sivers (Personal Growth). 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 posts are located here: https://sivers.org/comfort https://sivers.org/15-years Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 838.

0:03.6

Push, push, push, expanding your comfort zone.

0:07.1

And after 15 years of practice, both by Derek Sivers of Sivers.org,

0:12.5

and I'm Justin Malik, your personal narrator,

0:14.7

reading to you every day, just like an audiobook,

0:17.2

but free of charge, mostly from blogs, sometimes from books,

0:20.7

and always with permission from the websites.

0:23.4

Today's post actually is two short posts

0:26.1

there from Derek Sivers, who defines himself as a minimalist,

0:29.8

but he writes about everything, usually short-form posts like these.

0:33.8

I used to do Sivers Sunday episodes, but I was running out of material,

0:36.9

so now it's kind of random when I narrated this stuff,

0:38.8

but it's always a nice perspective.

0:40.9

For now, let's get right to today's two posts

0:43.3

and start optimizing your life.

0:46.0

Push, push, push, expanding your comfort zone

0:53.0

by Derek Sivers of Sivers.org.

0:56.3

I'm 40 meters underwater.

0:58.6

It's getting cold and dark.

1:00.8

It's only the third dive in my life,

1:03.1

but I'm taking the advanced training course

1:05.1

and the Caribbean teacher was a little reckless,

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