Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2020-03-12
Chris Williamson & Derek Sivers: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #150
Making Decisions, Achieving Excellence & Finding Meaning - Derek Sivers - #150
Derek Sivers is a writer, entrepreneur & musician. Derek's episodes on The Tim Ferriss Show are some of my all time favourites so I was super excited to speak to him.
Derek Sivers recommended Sum by David Eagleman and The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Sum
Recommended“and if you have read the book by David Eagleman called some s um it's it's an homage to that book sum is probably my single favorite book”
Where to get it
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The Courage to Be Disliked
Recommended“I really like this I heard this idea in a book called um the courage to be disliked which was also really probably one of the best things I've ever read”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged How to Live
“I was working maniacally on my next book which is called how to live which I'm so seriously doing like 15 hour days of writing”
Plugged How to Live
“and so my book how to live is an homage to some it's using that exact same format to answer the question how to live”
Plugged Hell Yeah Or No
“which is kind of what my next book called hell yeah or no is about”
Plugged Anything You Want
“my first big book called anything you want was published by well first by Seth Godin but then he sold his little publishing imprint to penguin”