WOW. I'm not usually the type for self-help-guru-personal-development stuff at all --really-- but THIS interview knocked me outa my flip-flops. Must-read!
Great stuff @sivers, cheers from Phnom Penh :)
Changing my operating system
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#12>"Reading lots of books. Lots of non-fiction books. Particularly a lot about psychology, behavioural economics, studies of happiness" Mind sharing your top picks from that crop, sivers?
He goes into quite a bit of detail here: http://sivers.org/book
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#13>"Reading lots of books. Lots of non-fiction books. Particularly a lot about psychology, behavioural economics, studies of happiness" Mind sharing your top picks from that crop, sivers?
He goes into quite a bit of detail here: http://sivers.org/book
Yep ^ that's the link.
Those books are default sorted in order with my top recommendations at the top. A little blurb on each, then detailed notes inside.
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#14Slightly off topic, but one of my favorite episodes from that podcast actually aired right after Derek Siver's interview: http://foolishadventure.com/audio/write-compelling-copy-with... It was definitely worth a listen and included a ton of practical tips on copywriting. The one that stuck with me the most was to "steal copy from your potential customers", for example, look up customers' Amazon reviews on your compet…
She was also interviewed in an episode of TechZing
http://techzinglive.com/page/857/153-tz-interview-joanna-wie... a year and a half ago.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
He goes into quite a bit of detail here: http://sivers.org/book
Yep ^ that's the link. Those books are default sorted in order with my top recommendations at the top. A little blurb on each, then detailed notes inside.
If you haven't yet read Steven Pinker's book The Better Angels of our Nature, I can't recommend it highly enough. It's a long read, but the writing is crisp and often hilarious, and I challenge anyone to come away from it without a sizable dent in their worldview.
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#16I don't really get the whole self-help, personal-development thing, but maybe that's because when life starts to bore me or get stale I change it.
The conversation in the article reads like this guy is somewhat manic though.
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#17So, somewhere around 41:25:
(I know that this is Steven Pressfield's concept, but...) what's the difference between 'resistance' and procrastination?
Edit: I searched around and, from Pressfield himself: "Procrastination is the most common manifestation of resistance because it's the easiest to rationalize..." Looks like I have three more books to add to my reading list.
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#18I don't really get the whole self-help, personal-development thing, but maybe that's because when life starts to bore me or get stale I change it. The conversation in the article reads like this guy is somewhat manic though.
Transcripts of interviews do tend to read a little over the top, however this chap does seem to have plenty of drive.
"If I say these two sentences. It would let them tell the relatives back in India that their daughter had a proper Muslim wedding. Means nothing to me, it means everything to them. So here we go."
Hope that one works out OK.
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#19Thinking the article was too long, I was searching for mentions of "OSX", "Linux", "Windows" and not finding what I was looking for. Then I noticed he wasn't talking about computer operating systems.
Same. Thought it was going to be relevant to me because I'm considering trying OS X after 22 years in Windows. Article was a bunch of nonsense.
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#20A similar mindhack on how to revert back to your "Last Known Working Configuration": http://zerotosuperhero.com/mindhack/find-your-lifes-last-kno...
Its good for uncovering unnoticed strengths and keystone habits.
Note: I'm firing up Zero to Superhero again, but excuse the blog as its still under construction.