Derek Sivers

Derek Sivers

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Episodes

February 24, 2025 2 mins

I get this question a lot, so here’s my honest answer.

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(I haven’t done this yet, but plan to. I listened to that Odysssey audiobook in two days of walking around Port Meadow, Oxford, and have been yearning to listen again.)

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February 22, 2025 1 min

Imagine you’re a ghost. You drift through the world but nobody sees you. You’re disconnected.

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February 21, 2025 3 mins

I was dating for the first time, after a six year long relationship.

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February 19, 2025 3 mins

Sofia was my first big love. We met at 21, when we were both in the circus. She opened me up, and taught me how to be honest. I was absolutely certain that I was going to spend the rest of my life with her.

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December 10, 2024 2 mins

This is a real question. I don’t know the answer and I’m curious.

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December 9, 2024 2 mins

I was 36, and had been living in Portland for two years. I saw an amazing house for sale — really amazing — stunning design, ideal location on the edge of the city, and its backyard was the start of a huge state park. I had a visceral reaction.

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December 5, 2024 1 min

I’m going for the double meaning of “get me” that also means “understand me”.

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December 4, 2024 1 min

According to statistics, I’m in the final third of my life. (I don’t expect to beat the odds, because I inherited a cancer-creating genetic disorder.) So maybe it’s the final quarter.

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November 25, 2024 1 min

Because I was raised with no religion, I used to think they were all ridiculous.

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My parents never mentioned God or any religion. Not necessarily atheist — nothing against. The subject just never came up.

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November 17, 2024 1 min

Dismissing gives me a quick little lift.

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November 15, 2024 13 mins

Dubai was in my “Top 5 places where I NEVER want to go”. I heard it was commercialized hedonism, glorified overindulgence, pandering to millionaires and influencers — extravagance and opulence. Everything I hate. That’s why I had never gone there.

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November 14, 2024 1 min

Tomorrow you have plans to go to an event with a friend. You made the plans a month ago. You ask your friend, “Do you still want to go?”

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November 11, 2024 2 mins

I used to live in a basement apartment, next to the trash room. Rats were often blocking my door, and I could hear them walking in the ceiling right above me as I slept. I hated them so much that I happily killed as many as I could, with no remorse.

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November 10, 2024 1 min

For many years, I was a touring musician, performing live on stage every week. But I didn’t like attending concerts. I liked making music more than listening to music. I felt I must be in the wrong line of work, creating something that I don’t consume. I never reconciled this feeling.

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September 26, 2024 1 min

Not a new idea, but just another visualization and reminder.

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You know that frustration of reading a book that should have been an article? Me too. So I try to do the opposite — to write so succinctly that you wish I would have said a little more. You complete it with your own thoughts.

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April 11, 2024 1 min

I’ve asked my favorite musicians if, when they’re done writing a new song, they feel it’s the best song ever. All of them said yes.

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March 27, 2024 1 min

I just got the call from the super-connected Alex Steininger that our mutual friend Ben Kihnel died in his sleep. He was only 48.

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