My notes on a conversation between Derek Sivers and Shane Parrish.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6hz9wHmdPLJO9tat3cpUOz?si=-5aO6KuGT5e3rjirHJUMAA

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Shane's (@ShaneAParrish) background: Shane Parrish is the foudner of Farnam Street, the premier website and blog on mental models and decision making. He is the author of The Great Mental Models, one of my favorite books.

Derek's (@sivers) background: Derek Sivers is the founder of CDBaby and author at sivers.org. It's hard to describe everythin Derek is, you just have to start exploring the things he makes and creates. He is the most thoughtful person I know. I highly recommend checking out his books and website.

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7:40 Immitation versus Innovation

To me, the world feels unnecessarily ceremonial, like people imitate others without questioning it enough, but I don’t want to learn their ways. I don’t want to be like them. Instead, I just ignore it all and ask myself, what’s the real point? Meaning like, what am I really trying to do here?

• Life doesn't have to be so complex. Most solutions are built to solve everyone's problem. But instead you should ask, what am I actually trying to do here?

<aside> 💡 Know the difference between easy and simple. Strive for simplicity, not ease.

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17:42 The Hell Yeah or No Framework

"Say no to almost everything. Leave space in your life, leave free time. But this isn't relaxing, it's strategic. When something great comes along, you can say "HELL YEAH!" to it, and have the energy and excitement to do it.

• It's better to do five big things than 500 half-assed things.
• This is just one tool in Derek's toolkit, and should be used strategically. It works best when you are drowning in opportunity. If you are starving for opportunity, you should say Hell Yes to everything.

<aside> 💡 Check out Derek's Book — Hell Yeah or No. I am reading it now and enjoying every page.

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Hell Yeah or No | Derek Sivers

22:53 The Importance of Delegation

<aside> 💡 I thought this was the coolest part of the episode, Tyler describing why he only eats three bites of chocolate ice cream!

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When you go out for dessert, how do you choose how much ice cream to have?

"You know you're a true business owner when you can leave your business for a year, come back, and it's doing better than when you left."