Unmistakable Classics: Ryder Carroll | Track Your Past, Order Your Present, and Plan Your Future
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Ryder Carroll is a digital product designer, inventor of the Bullet Journal and author of his latest book, The Bullet Journal Method, which focuses on the art of intentional living. He joins us in this episode to share some valuable insights into his early career, experiences that helped shape him and lead him to where he is today, as well as what inspired him to create the Bullet Journal. Not only this but Ryder also gives us a first-hand look into his long awaited book: The Bullet Journal Method.
To get your copy of The Bullet Journal Method or to find out more about Ryder Carroll and the Bullet Journal, simply visit https://bulletjournal.com/
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| 0:00.0 | I had never defined what I wanted on my own terms. |
| 0:04.7 | How many of our goals that we're working towards are actually defined by us |
| 0:08.7 | from our lived experience, like things that we know add value to our lives, |
| 0:14.0 | things that we know make us curious and engage us. |
| 0:18.6 | For me, the answer was not much. |
| 0:22.1 | I had inherited my goals from, if you will, the media, from my culture. |
| 0:27.6 | And in some cases, sure, that's fine, but you know, it's like, |
| 0:31.2 | get a million dollars or even worse, like, when you're rich, you'll be happy. |
| 0:35.7 | Right? It's like, okay, let's play that out for a second. |
| 0:38.7 | How do you define rich? What amount of money is that? |
| 0:42.5 | I don't know, we have these cookie-cutter ideas of what happiness is, |
| 0:45.7 | and I found that that was very dangerous, because we spend so much time working towards these |
| 0:51.5 | goals just to find them to be empty. |
| 0:57.9 | I'm Srinie Rao, and this is the unmistakable creative podcast, where you get a window |
| 1:02.1 | into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds, |
| 1:05.4 | who've started movements, built driving businesses, |
| 1:08.2 | written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art. |
| 1:11.2 | For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakablecreative.com. |
| 1:15.5 | Right, or welcome to the unmistakable creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. |
| 1:23.2 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:24.9 | Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you here. |
| 1:27.1 | So I have known about your work for quite some time, and I was the fortunate beneficiary |
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