How to Live, Derek Sivers
How to Live, Derek Sivers
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How to Live
27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion

Author: Derek Sivers

Narrator: Derek Sivers

Unabridged: 3 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Hit Media

Published: 05/28/2021

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Synopsis

Not quite non-fiction, not quite self-help. It’s a work of art about conflicting philosophies.Many books believe they know how you should live. But each book disagrees with the next. In “How to Live”, each chapter believes it knows how you should live. And each chapter disagrees with the next.One chapter makes a compelling argument for why you should be completely independent, keeping all options open. The next chapter argues why you should commit to one career, one place, and one person.One chapter persuades you to be fully present, and experience each moment. The next, to delay gratification and invest for the future.Which one is right? Which does the author believe? All of them. It's a philosophy of conflicting philosophies.A very unique and thought-provoking book. Meant for reflection as much as instruction.113 incredibly succinct pages of profound insights. No philosophers are quoted. No -isms are named. Only actionable directives. The end result feels more like poetry than prose.

About Derek Sivers

After making a living as a professional musician, Derek Sivers went looking for ways to sell his own CD online and ended up creating CD Baby, once the largest seller of independent music on the web with over $100M in sales for over 150,000 musician clients. Since 2008, Derek has traveled the world and stayed busy creating and nurturing creative endeavors, like Muckwork, his newest company where teams of efficient assistants help musicians do their “uncreative dirty work.” Derek writes regularly on creativity, entrepreneurship, and music on his blog: http://sivers.org/.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrej

I love this book and I've recommended it a number of times because it charts its way through the space of self-consistent philosophies for life, none of them strictly right or wrong. I love the idea that, as miraculously conscious entities that we are, we experience a kind of awareness and are empow......more

Goodreads review by Martin

It is really good. But: I'm a Sivers fan. 10 years ago I sent him an email out of the blue because I knew that he had moved to Singapore and I wanted to do the same. Lo and behold, in good old Sivers fashion he replied and introduced me to a young accountant who would eventually help me to set foot......more

Goodreads review by Teck Wu

Some good advice, but very American advice......more

Goodreads review by Stephen

Derek says that this is his best book ever, and I fully understand that an author is always going to have his/her own perspective on a book, not just because of the experience of bringing it into being, but because of what he/she hopes the book might achieve. It is that latter reason, I think, that......more

Goodreads review by Andy

Initially I found it confusing and contradictory, but the intention became clear as I read through the book.......more

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