How to Live
Derek Sivers
Summary
A fantastic book filled with paradoxes on how to live life
Rating: 5/5
Notes
The only way to be deeply happy is to break all dependencies
Dogs bark. People speak. It doesn’t mean a thing. What they say and do has nothing to do with you.
Don’t let ideas into your head or heart without your permission
Decide everything is your fault
You can’t be free without self mastery
You don’t see things as they are. You see them as you are. Change yourself and change the world.
Be a perpetual traveller, a nomadic minimalist
Own your business with many small customers instead of large clients
- Offer products, not a personal service, so your business runs without you
Commit. Focus your attention on the few things you’re committed to and nothing else
Habits create character
To experience it all, nothing twice
Change your need to change things. Do nothing
Say nothing unless it must be said
When choosing to decide, do nothing
The unintelligent jump to conclusions, the wise just observe
Save the future, think as if you were a grandparent
Today’s discomfort brings future rewards
Only idiots think they’re always right
Make memories. Pursue novelty
Mastery is the ultimate status and is done through repetition
You need ritual, not inspiration. You must do this every day.
Life is determined by randomness, odds and probability
Pursue pain, comfort is a silent killer
Easy road leads to a hard future. Hard road leads to an easy future.
Forget the past and future. Enjoy right now
Be a famous pioneer. Show what has never been done.
Make a stage name and a company with that same name
Choose the future. Embrace tomorrow and never stop learning
Value what has endured
Masters the fundamentals, not the new tricks
Comedy is tragedy plus time
Expect the worst and prepare for it but don’t worry. Practice being uncomfortable.
Shallow happiness is conquering the world. Deep happiness is conquering yourself.
Capture the value you create. Charge for what you do.
Value yourself higher, then commit to this valuation
Own and control 100% of what you create
Stay focused on creating value, everything else is a distraction
Manners are shallow, honesty is deep
Die empty. Get ideas out of your head and into reality
Distribute your work as widely as you can. There are no unknown geniuses.
Make as many mistakes as possible and assume failure
Take on big challenges and assume failures
Look for what’s ugly and fix it
Schedule your creativity
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Make Something Wonderful
Steve Jobs
Summary
The life of Steve Jobs in his own words
Rating: 5/5
Notes
Make something wonderful and put it out there
‘You appear, have a chance to blaze in the sky, then you disappear’
When you’re a stranger in a place, you notice thing you don’t otherwise (Jobs after India trip)
Whenever you start with nothing, always shoot for the moon. You have nothing to lose.
You never achieve what you want without falling on your face a few times
Never be afraid to fail. You never achieve what you want without falling flat on your face a few times
We are never taught to listen to our intuitions, to develop and nurture them. But if you do pay attention to these subtle insights, you can make them come true
Creativity equals connecting previously unrelated experiences and insights others don’t see
Believe that some of what you follow with your heart will come back and make your life richer. And it will. And you will gain even firmer trust on your instincts and intuitions
Make your avocation your vocation. Make what you love your work.
The journey is the reward. The reward isn’t in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, it’s in crossing the rainbow
To find A+ talent, if experienced, look at their track record and results
The world we know is a human creation and we can push it forward
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do (read whole ad ‘here’s to the crazy ones)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit - Aristotle
Hire people better than you are
You can’t plan to meet the people who will change your life
It’s impossible to connect the dots looking forward, but they make sense looking backwards so you have to trust the dots will somehow connect in your future
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you
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