#118 - Derek Sivers: Useful, Not True: Challenging Your Beliefs About Money, Work, Creativity, and Life

Derek Sivers (@sivers) is an author of philosophy and entrepreneurship, known for his surprising, quotable insights and pithy, succinct writing style. He is a former musician, programmer, TED speaker, and circus clown, who sold his first company, CDBaby, for $22 million and gave all the money to charity.

 

Derek’s books (How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Your Music and People, Anything You Want) and newest projects are at his website: sive.rs. His very recently released book is Useful Not True.

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Resources/People Mentioned:

• The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
• Healing Back Pain - John E. Sarno MD
• Atomic Habits - James Clear
• Igor Stravinsky
• Robert Craft
• Meggan Kaiser