Derek Sivers Quotes

Your whole experience of life is in your mind.
Focus on your internal world, not external world.

any business that’s in business to sell you a cure is motivated not to focus on prevention.)

So try to be wrong.
Try to disprove your beliefs.
Never believe something on faith.
Prove it or disprove it.
While other people have one idea that they think might work, you will have thousands you can prove didn’t work, and one you couldn’t make fail.

Learning without doing is wasted. If I don’t use what I learn, then it was pointless! How horrible to waste those hundreds of hours I spent learning, and not turn it into action.

If you’ve ever been confused or distracted, with too many options…
If you don’t finish what you start…
If you’re not with a person you love…
… then you’ve felt the problem.
The problem is a lack of commitment.

Live in the world of tomorrow.
Surround yourself only with what’s brand new and upcoming.
That’s where life is made.
It’s the most optimistic environment, full of hope and promises.

The biggest obstacle to learning is assuming you already know.
Confidence is usually ignorance.

Everybody’s ideas seem obvious to them.

Here’s how to live: Follow the great book.

Starting small puts 100 percent of your energy into actually solving real problems for real people.

There’s a benefit to being naive about the norms of the world — deciding from scratch what seems like the right thing to do, instead of just doing what others do

When you keep all options open, you’re conflicted and miserable.
Your thoughts are divided.
Your power is diluted.
Your time is thinly spread.
Indecision keeps you shallow.
Get the deeper pleasure of diving into one choice.

Relax for the same result

One action creates a problem, fixed by another action, so they react and counter-act, creating more problems to fix.
All of this can be avoided.
All actions are optional.
You don’t have to act or react.
You don’t have to do anything.

A gorilla, speaking with sign language, makes a joke.
We’re amazed.
She’s showing the fullest expression of a soul. But when a person is humorless, it’s the opposite.
They’ve lost the point of life.