EP. 120: DEREK SIVERS - HOW TO LIVE AS A CREATOR AND WHY YOU SHOULD FOCUS LIKE A MONOMANIAC
Derek just makes something his top priority and lets everything fall aside
he brain dumps ideas for 6 hours, then goes back to his project which could take a week, 4 yrs...When things come up, just keeps working on it
Life isn't a problem to be solved but a paradox to be experimented which is what 'How to Live' is about
Different books will tell you conflicting answers
Derek just kept thinking about writing this book
Orchestra:
are you going to use the flute for a couple years, don't have to decide, COMBINE THEM!
it might be just a few seconds, then bring in other instruments, apply these different approaches at the micro-nuanced level
for example: might do what Atomic Habits says but only for 30 minutes, then throw yourself into one thing for 4 hours. Might live for future for an hour, might be an absolute hedonist, but then living for the past the next
doesn't have to be time-based, might be in certain aspects of life. For example, when it comes to tech, Derek is conservative, he wants things that have lasted
certain philos to apply to certain aspects of life [relationships...]
don't have to pick one philo and say this is right
different times of life, valuing different things
we get critical when we think we've wasted all this time with one philosophy, but we can see that ways of living change
only did the balance for 2 years because Derek had a day job for 2 years, then music gigs paid full cost of living
Derek thinks that people compromise what they want when they do Google SEO or Amazon publishing