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Moving for Good | Derek Sivers
At first, their values and methods will feel wrong. You’ll feel the urge to tell them how it could be better. (Meaning: more like what you know.) But try to understand a perspective where they are right, and you are wrong. Eventually you’ll realize that your beliefs were not correct — they were just the quaint local culture of where you grew up. You are a product of your environment.
Moving for Good | Derek Sivers
This keeps you in a learning mindset. Previously mindless habits, like buying groceries, now keep your mind open, alert, and noticing new things. New arrivals in a culture often notice what the locals don’t. (Fish don’t know they’re in water.)
Don’t think of yourself as visiting. Say that you’ve moved here, and mean it. Commit. Immerse. Go native.
Form deep friendships with locals. Ask lots of questions. Ask them to explain things, and show you how it’s done. When they state a fact, ask how they know. When they state an opinion, ask for examples.
Moving for Good | Derek Sivers
You only really learn when you’re surprised. Unless you’re surprised, everything is fitting into your existing thought patterns. So to get smarter, you need to get surprised, think in new ways, and deeply understand different perspectives.
With effort, you could do this from the comforts of home. But the most effective way to shake things up is to move across the world. Pick a place that’s most unlike what you know, and go.
Frequently Asked Questions | Derek Sivers
read the best books about the challenges you face, and let those books be your mentors.
It’s dangerous to think that there is one special person that can give you all the answers and help you.
Why are you doing? | Derek Sivers
But whatever you choose, brace yourself, because people are always going to tell you you’re wrong.
That’s why you need know why you're doing what you're doing. Know it in advance. Use it as your compass and optimize your life around it. Let the other goals be secondary.
Why are you doing? | Derek Sivers
But whatever you decide, you need to optimize for that, and be willing to let go of the others.
You can’t diffuse your energy, trying to do a little bit of everything, or you’ll always be in conflict with yourself.
Why are you doing? | Derek Sivers
the worst thing in life would be a death-bed regret that you’ve spent your life pursuing what someone said you should want, instead of what you really want.
Why are you doing? | Derek Sivers
The most important thing in life is to know why you are doing what you’re doing.
Most people don’t know. They just go with the flow.
Disconnect | Derek Sivers
People often ask me what they can do to be more successful.
I say disconnect. Unplug. Turn off your phone and wifi. Focus. Write. Practice. Create.
That’s what’s rare and valuable these days.
You get no competitive edge from consuming the same stuff everyone else is consuming. But it’s rare to focus. And it gives such better rewards.
Disconnect | Derek Sivers
Every business wants you get you addicted to their infinite updates, pings, chats, messages, and news. But if what you want out of life is to create, then those things are the first to go.
No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs - by Dan S. Kennedy | Derek Sivers
Highly successful people do what they need to do, whether they like it or not, in order to get the results they want.
No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs - by Dan S. Kennedy | Derek Sivers
Populating my work environment with "psychological triggers"-objects that remind me to think a certain way. I work at mentally attracting wealth, for example, so my primary work environment is full of things that represent wealth; at last count, 27 such pictures, objects, and artifacts were within view. Because I am very concerned with time, I have eight clocks around me. I have a wooden hangman's noose to remind me of deadlines.
No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs - by Dan S. Kennedy | Derek Sivers
The action that turns your time into the most money and wealth possible: turn your attention to marketing. Get free of as many other aspects of your business as you can, get passionately interested in and good at marketing, and invest your time there. Why? Because it is infinitely easier to find or train someone to take care of a business' operations than it is to get someone to do its marketing. Marketing is the highestpaid profession and most valuable part of a business. The person who can create systems for acquiring customers, clients, or patients effectively and profitably is the "money person."
