Elevate with Tyler Chesser - The Real Estate Podcast for Investing, Mindset and Personal Development
Mindset, mind expansion and personal development for high-performing real estate investors. Join Tyler Chesser, a successful real estate entrepreneur and personal growth thought leader, as he sits down for mind expanding conversations with influential authorities in real estate, as well as top experts in other industries and disciplines. In these discussions, Tyler distills the mindset, habits, routines and tactics from the experts which will support you in your own quest to Elevate to a life without limits.
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Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
While healthcare professionals top the list of highest-paid occupations in the US with median salaries of $208,000 per year, research shows that physician burnout rate is at an all-time high. Overworked and stretched thin, some doctors end up disengaged from their careers and are looking for alternative ways to earn income so that they can gain back time for themselves and for things that matter most. This is true for many busy, career-oriented individuals across professions who are losing control of their lives and their time and have become enslaved to their jobs and duties.
Dr. Nancy Huynh of Clear Vision Investing joins us today to talk in detail about this predicament that many of her colleagues are facing. She believes that one of the ways to support professionals and fight burnout is to create income streams from passive investments. Nancy makes the case for passive real estate investing that can bring in cash flow regularly and allow a physician or any professional to choose to reduce work hours in their workplaces and spend them purposefully. Listen now and learn how growth in passive investing empowers you to gain control of your life and helps you achieve not only financial but time freedom.
Key Points from This Episode:
Nancy shares her personal background and upbringing, and her career path.
What prompted Nancy to get into real estate investing and purchase her first deal?
Nancy talks about her experience with her first investment and the transformation and mindset shift that it has brought her.
What are the common misperceptions about real estate investing from Nancy’s colleagues in the medical field?
Nancy’s advice to her medical colleagues to relieve fears about investing and gain confidence to take appropriate action.
Why having a competent and reliable team in your investing business is crucial as Nancy learned to relinquish some roles and responsibilities in the business.
Nancy reflects on the path that she’s now taking versus the then-predetermined direction after her medical school graduation.
Nancy shares business strategies and her approach to accomplishing her mission guided by her “why”.
Nancy reveals her projections on the real estate market for 2023 and how she evaluates deals today.
Being an ophthalmologist, a real estate investor, a mother among many other roles, how does Nancy create balance in her life?
Why does Nancy believe that anyone can do real estate investing and how personal growth plays a critical part in it?
Nancy answers the Rare Air Questionnaire.
Tweetables:
“It's your interpretation and your thoughts around a situation that drives your actions and how you react to it.” - Nancy Huynh
“Success leaves clues.” - Tony Robbins
“Shift your mindset that time does not equal money.” - Nancy Huynh
“Think in terms of how you can make the most use of the time that you have. How do you maximize that time? What is most important to you? And what is that time worth to you?” - Nancy Huynh
“It's not about trading more time but it’s about getting smarter. If you want to gain more control, it's about getting more financially intelligent. - Tyler Chesser
“Real estate investing is a get-rich-slow, not a get-rich-quick scheme.” - Nancy Huynh
“You need money to make money.” - Nancy Huynh
“Whether we're doctors or not, we just want autonomy. We just want to have control over our lives to do what we want, when we want, with who we want.” - Nancy Huynh
“Real estate is really a team sport. And the more 'wes' we have, the more we win because you really have to find your unique skill set.”- Nancy Huynh
“It's always about the right deal paired with the right debt paired with the right market.”- Nancy Huynh
“Buy right, finance right, manage right.”- Nancy Huynh
“Constantly revisit what you want, why you want it, and then program yourself to take those actions to be in alignment with that ‘ideal self of yourself’.” - Nancy Huynh
Links Mentioned:
Nancy Huynh, MD on LinkedIn
Send an email to Nancy Huynh, MD
Clear Vision Investing website
"Who Not How" by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy
"Good to Great" by Jim Collins
Invest with CF Capital
About Nancy Huynh, MD
Nancy is a physician, eye surgeon, entrepreneur, and impact real estate investor. As an ophthalmologist, she has made a real difference in thousands of lives by solving people’s most pressing eye problems and performing sight-saving eye surgeries. She helps people to see better so they can regain their identity, dignity, and vision for the future.
Nancy started investing in real estate to create passive income, hoping to regain control of her time and stop trading time for money. She currently owns and operates a real estate investment portfolio in the Atlanta area.
She founded Clear Vision Investing to not only grow her own portfolio but also to help others realize the power of real estate. She is passionate about helping others, especially physicians, gain financial literacy and achieve financial security through real estate investing. She believes that financially-intelligent physicians can change medicine and the world for the better.
As an impact investor, Nancy believes that real estate investing can deliver attractive financial returns while also making a positive social impact. Part of the profits from her company is donated to giving the gift of sight to someone in need and to cure preventable blindness globally.
Nancy is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Medical School. She currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and two young daughters.
Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
While we set life goals and business objectives to achieve success, it is our behaviors and ultimately the habits that we form that help us to get there. The consistent, repeated behavior that becomes habits are the small, steady steps that will take us to success. Habits shape who we are - our attitudes, actions, decision-making, and other aspects of our lives. So, it is crucial to build good habits if we want to make a positive transformation in our lives.
We are joined in this episode by behavioral science expert Samuel Salzer to help us understand the science of behavior and the power of building positive habits in helping us achieve success in whatever goal we’ve set. Because forming positive habits isn’t always easy, Samuel gives us critical information on the science of building good habits, how they are formed, the strategies we can apply, and how we can set ourselves up for success by starting small. Let’s begin our journey of transformation from “thoughtful to thoughtless” and ultimately, to success!
Key Points from This Episode:
Samuel’s backstory and upbringing
What’s the catalyst that led to Samuel’s interest in behavioral economics while at the university in Australia?
Samuel’s insights on the science behind behaviors and habits.
Where should people start if they are looking to make transformations and changes in their lives?
Samuel explains the process of building a habit.
Proactive and reactive strategies to build the push in beginning a task and becoming productive.
Samuel discusses the “thoughtful to thoughtless” journey and how this can be powerfully and effectively utilized.
Why it is valuable to take inventory of your current habits if you want to change or build new ones.
Cornerstone habits that can give investors one of their highest ROIs.
Samuel answers the Rare-Air Questionnaire.
Tweetables:
“Intentions are not the same as actions.” - Samuel Salzer
“Try to make the world better one good habit at a time.” - Samuel Salzer
“The basic formula for behavioral science is the person plus situation equals behavior.” - Samuel Salzer
“Habit is the behavior done automatically.” - Samuel Salzer
“Everyone is different and every situation is different. So you have to approach things from a contextual lens.” - Samuel Salzer
“The most successful thing to do is to start small, and then build momentum and then build on that momentum.” - Samuel Salzer
“It's a journey from thoughtful to thoughtless.” - Samuel Salzer
“Repetitions form habits if they're done in the same time, same place, same context.” - Samuel Salzer
“We have a lot to change in our lives. We're not going to climb that mountain in one day. And so start small and start simply and allow yourself to build momentum.” - Tyler Chesser
Links Mentioned:
Samuel Salzer on LinkedIn
Samuel Salzer website
Habit Weekly
Habit Coach Pro
Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change by Matt Wallaert
Good Habits, Bad Habits by Wendy Wood
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Elliot Aronson Carol Tavris
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
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About Samuel Salzer
Samuel Salzer is an experienced applied behavioral scientist and advisor helping value-driven organizations around the world to use behavioral science and behavioral economics to build great digital products and services. Specializing in behavioral strategy, habit formation, large-scale interventions, and building reward loops, Samuel helps organizations apply insights from Behavioral Science and Behavioral Economics to fuel habit formation and digital behavior change.
Samuel founded the largest Behavioral Design community and newsletter, Habit Weekly which provides 15k+ members with the best articles, videos, podcasts, and exclusive premium content from the world of behavioral science and business.
Samuel lives by this motto - “Make the world a better place, one good habit at a time.”
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
As we age and gain new experiences, our brain changes and it becomes evident that we can’t hold every piece of information and knowledge that we encounter at all times. More often, we only retain information that is immediately useful or relevant to our present needs. But, we also want to remember crucial information that we’ve read today at a time in the future when it is needed, right?
In this episode, CTPO, speaker, author, MIT instructor Mark Herschberg and I discuss this topic in more detail. As an author faced with the challenge of readers’ recall and retention, Mark created an app called Brain Bump designed to help users remember information, data, and materials from books, blogs, podcasts, classes, talks, and other resources whenever they are needed. If you are in the business of investing, or in any business for that matter, you’ll need access to as much information as you can to run your business efficiently and to have meaningful engagement with clients and investors. Listen until the end and you’ll learn invaluable tips to protect yourself and your business from cyberattacks.
Key Points from This Episode:
What makes 21st-century learning different?
Why did Mark create the Brain Bump app?
Why do most people not retain what they read?
How does the technique of “spaced repetition” help retain information?
The two ways when most people need information.
Mark discusses the Brain Bump app and how it helps users access information when they need them.
How can we use media channels more efficiently?
Where can the Brain Bump app be downloaded?
Mark talks about cybersecurity and the persistent threat of cyberattacks.
Measures that companies, businesses, and individuals should take to protect against cyberattacks.
Safety tips against bank fraud or wire fraud.
Tweetables:
“We live in the most abundant time in human history with regard to sharing information, and sharing perspectives and thoughts.” - Tyler Chesser
“Even when a reader reads a book, a business book, a self-help book, something with advice, say, wow, there's great advice here. And then you forget it two weeks later. You forget 90%-95% of it. That is a problem. And so there's a problem for the author and a problem for the reader.” - Mark Herschberg
“Media is traditionally linear. We listen to this episode, front to back, first to last. We read a book from first to last. We watch a TV show from start to finish. Exceptions are encyclopedias or dictionaries, you generally don't read that first page to last, you jump in, you get what you need, and you leave. More of our media will shift in this direction.” - Mark Herschberg
“By chopping up the content from an episode, from a book and putting it in this nonlinear order, we make it more relevant. It's like a "choose your own adventure" that you grab what is right for you.” - Mark Herschberg
“The teacher is who learns the most.” - Tyler Chesser
“For any company or individual, it's not a matter of “if” but “when” you run into a cybersecurity issue.” - Mark Herschberg
“You will be attacked, you will be hacked. It's about being prepared and having your defenses there.” - Mark Herschberg
Links Mentioned:
Brain Bump App
The Career Toolkit
Mark Herschberg on LinkedIn
Invest with CF Capital
About Mark HerschbergMark Herschberg is the author of “The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You” and creator of the Brain Bump app. From tracking criminals and terrorists on the dark web to creating marketplaces and new authentication systems, Mark has spent his career launching and developing new ventures at startups and Fortune 500s and in academia, with over a dozen patents to his name. He helped to start the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, dubbed MIT’s “career success accelerator,” where he teaches annually. At MIT, he received a B.S. in Physics, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and a M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, focusing on cryptography. At Harvard Business School, Mark helped create a platform used to teach finance at prominent business schools. He also works with many non-profits, currently serving on the board of Plant A Million Corals. He was one of the top-ranked ballroom dancers in the country and now lives in New York City, where he is known for his social gatherings, including his annual Halloween party, as well as his diverse cufflink collection.
Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
High-income, busy professionals who dream of time and financial freedom seek wealth-building ventures to secure their future. Many go into real estate investing to pursue their financial and life goals. Our guest today, Daniel Holmlund of Good Samaritan Capital is pursuing that path and is living the life of a full-time working professional and a real estate investor.
While an engineer for Intel, Daniel founded Good Samaritan Capital, an investment firm specializing in multifamily acquisitions. He believes that everyday working professionals can achieve financial freedom through real estate investing. Listen to how he attained his real estate investing goals consistently through grit and determination. Learn how he optimized his mindset, improved his strategy and extensively studied investment opportunities to analyze potential to bring his firm to success.
Key Points from This Episode:
Daniel shares his personal background, family upbringing, and his inherited entrepreneurial spirit.
Daniel talks about his professional career path and his first real estate investment right out of college.
How Daniel became a Europe-based hard money lender to real estate investors in the US.
Daniel shares experiences and lessons learned from the 2008 crisis
How Daniel got himself into the real estate syndication business
Why and how Daniel started Good Samaritan Capital.
The factors that enabled Daniel’s company to hit its goals and achieve growth consistently.
Daniel’s business strategy amidst the current economic and market conditions.
Daniel’s projections on the real estate market for 2023 and beyond.
What are the key indicators of a multifamily apartment investment viability?
How does Daniel manage emotions and stressful situations as a real estate investor?
Daniel answers the Rare Air Questionnaire
Tweetables:
“Character is revealed when times are hard.” - Daniel Holmlund
“You are going to get back what you put out to the world.” - Daniel Holmlund
“Pick a goal and go after it no matter what.” - Daniel Holmlund
“Anytime that there's fear within the market and uncertainty, you can't predict the future as easily.” - Daniel Holmlund
“You have to go out and be effective. You have to touch people's lives. You have to give your best always.” - Daniel Holmlund
“Give value and do right with your investors. Do that and they'll stick with you.” - Daniel Holmlund
“Know that you're going to have to do it again, and again, and again, and again. Once you break your first mental barrier, you've got the next one lined up right behind it.” - Daniel Holmlund
“Always look for predictability, diversification, and the ability for people to be able to afford the product that you're selling.” - Daniel Holmlund
“The idea behind being an investor and being a Good Samaritan investor is that you are improving yourself so that you can help others improve themselves. And that never ends. Once you break through your barrier, you've got to level up your game and break to the next.” - Daniel Holmlund
“Debt that brings cash flow is your friend in high inflationary environments.” - Daniel Holmlund
Links Mentioned:
Good Samaritan Capital website
Send an email to Daniel
The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Ray Dalio's books
75 Hard Program
ACAID Africa Community Aid
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Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Mental toughness is one of the most vital elements to success in real estate. And because It is inevitable that we’ll meet challenges and problems pursuing our real estate objectives, developing mental toughness and growing thick skin can become key to rising above adversity and achieving our life and business goals.
Join me today in another Elevate exclusive episode where we share ideas on how to build a strong and sound mind to reach mental toughness. Let’s take a look at what it means to have thick skin and discover why having thick skin is a positive character trait, especially in the real estate business. Let me share with you the 6-step approach to getting thick skin and developing mental toughness to help you navigate your investing journey.
Key Points from This Episode:
Tyler introduces the episode’s topic - using the power of mental toughness and developing a thick skin to achieve success in real estate.
Tyler defines and enumerates the characteristics of a “thick-skinned” person that augurs well for real estate entrepreneurs.
He emphasizes that problems and adversity in real estate are inevitable so developing mental toughness is crucial.
Examples of challenges and problems in real estate that can be overcome by developing a thick skin and mental toughness
The 6-step approach to developing a thick skin and mental toughness
Tyler’s challenge to conquer your inner game and cultivate mental toughness
Tweetables:
“Resilience and persistence are going to be critical to real estate success.” - Tyler Chesser
“Mental toughness is the centerpiece of achieving what we want to achieve in real estate.” - Tyler Chesser
“If you are thick-skinned, you don't let failure or disappointment get you down. You keep believing in yourself and moving forward.” - Tyler Chesser
“Just because you're thick-skinned, that doesn't mean that you have no emotions, it just means you have a strategy for dealing with failures, and use it to your advantage.” - Tyler Chesser
“Conquer adversity through mental toughness, or what I would describe as a theoretical thick skin.” - Tyler Chesser
"Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory." - Bill Russell
"If you are running a business anywhere in the world, people who really do well are the people who have mental toughness." - Robert Kraft
“Pause before you react.” - Tyler Chesser
“Persistence and resilience are the core to being mentally tough and to having thick skin.” - Tyler Chesser
"Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them." - T. Harv Eker
"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." - Sir Edmund Hillary
“The most powerful game to conquer is the inner game.” - Tyler Chesser
Links Mentioned:
"Rhinoceros Success" by Scott Alexander
"Fear Setting" TED Talk by Tim Ferriss
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Tuesday Dec 27, 2022
Tuesday Dec 27, 2022
Do you have what it takes to succeed in multifamily investing? Multifamily syndication is beyond just buying apartment buildings and then selling them at a profit. If you want a successful and profitable multifamily business beyond a business venture that simply manages to survive, then you have to learn the crucial factors that make the difference. Given the current economic uncertainties and market cycle fluctuations, it’s imperative to learn the dynamic forces at work and be able to use them to your advantage and grow your investment.
Mike Flaherty, founder and managing partner of L5 Real Estate Investments, joins us today to help us understand the systems, tools, and resources that multifamily syndicators can leverage to scale up your business amidst changing economic and market conditions. Find out how Mike navigates challenges in every aspect of syndication as he grows his portfolio. Learn what mindset to adopt as you evaluate potential deals and discover how he mitigates risks and seizes opportunities in multifamily investing while avoiding analysis paralysis. Hear his economic and real estate forecast for 2023 and know what pitfalls to avoid. All these and much more to learn in today’s episode.
Key Points from This Episode:
What happened to Mike’s real estate business in the past two years during the Covid pandemic?
Mike talks about buying and scaling during the pandemic and why the current conditions are more challenging for his business.
Mike’s outlook on the economy and multifamily real estate investing for 2023.
Is Mike expecting a light or mild recession?
How does Mike apply his analytical and engineering mindset in running his real estate business?
Pitfalls to avoid and lessons Mike learned from mistakes made in due diligence
Mike’s advice on establishing systems to mitigate risks and seize opportunities in multifamily investing.
In deal acquisition, how can you avoid analysis paralysis while performing due diligence with stringent buying criteria?
The biggest lesson Mike has learned about asset management
Team, tools, technology and resources needed to scale a multifamily investment business
How Mike manages team accountability
Mike’s projections about property insurance and taxes
How Mike navigates market cycle fluctuations
Tailwinds and potential hidden risks in multifamily investing
How is Mike investing in himself these days?
Tweetables:
“Success is a function of doing the right thing over a long period of time.”
“The key to making good smart prudent investments really comes down to due diligence, and understanding the rights and the wrongs and the pitfalls of where you could have some problems.”
“Developing relationships with key people and companies can really help save you a lot of time, money and headaches over the long haul.”
“You can never fall in love with your real estate deal.”
“People say you make money on the buy, but you make money by performing on the buy.”
“You're always off track somewhere and you're always on track somewhere else.”
“Continue to listen, learn, read, and be prepared. The more prepared you are, the more often you'll make a great decision on buying a great investment.”
Links Mentioned:
L5 Investments
Real Page
Juniper Square
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About Mike Flaherty
Michael Flaherty is the Founder and Managing Partner of L5 Real Estate Investments. Throughout his career, Mike has been involved in the ownership, development and entitlements of over 200+ nationwide commercial and residential properties valued at over $1 billion in total – including multi-family, resort, hospitality, office, retail and large master-planned residential communities. His passion for multi-family investment performance is based on his niche for detailed due diligence, market analysis and acquisition of value-add opportunities.
Prior to founding L5, Mike was a partner with Cardinal Real Investments where the focus was on the astute repositioning and development of residential and commercial in Los Angeles and New York City. Mike also managed British Petroleum’s (BP) zoning and real estate development platform for Bovis Lend Lease, one of the world’s largest real estate development, project management, and construction companies. Prior to Mike’s work in the multi-family and commercial real estate industry, he managed numerous high-volume residential and master-planned developments for Toll Brothers, Inc., the nation’s largest developer and builder of luxury homes.
Mike earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Villanova University and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California. Additionally, he is a Board Member of Kids Helping Kids and Advisor to the Board for Mychal’s Learning Place, a non-profit organization focused on assisting children with developmental disabilities and low-income children in local communities and worldwide.
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Is there a blueprint for achieving success in business and in life? A key factor, we often hear, is shattering limiting beliefs and eliminating the things that are holding us back. In addition to that, developing habits that set you up for success is even more critical to effect change and growth.
Joining us today to talk about this subject is Jeff Wickersham, mental toughness and peak performance coach. Jeff outlines methods and tactics for developing a tougher mindset and gaining greater confidence for personal and professional growth. He emphasizes that the habit-stacking strategy is critical for change and for achieving one’s full potential. Listen now and find out why committing to your identity and building keystone habits will be a game-changer for your growth and progress in life and in business.
Key Points from This Episode:
Jeff’s back story and upbringing
The pivotal moment that pushed Jeff to pursue personal development and work hard to achieve his maximum potential
Why forming habits is a critical factor in personal growth
What keystone habits are important in Jeff’s life?
Ways to engage and develop the mindset gym
Ways to cultivate physical energy
How Jeff applies a bookend type of approach to his day
Limiting beliefs or modalities commonly observed in people
Jeff’s tactics to guard his mind and remain committed to creating his identity
Jeff talks about his 17-year experience in the real estate business.
Jeff answers the rare-air questionnaire.
Tweetables:
“Where you start doesn't need to be where you finish.” - Jeff Wickersham
“Our success is a lagging measure of what we do day in and day out.”- Jeff Wickersham
“Much of what we do is dictated by the small, micro choices that we do on a daily basis.”- Jeff Wickersham
“Every single thing that we do impacts every other single thing that we do in our life.”- Jeff Wickersham
“A lot of things are easy to do and also easy not to do.” - Jeff Olson
“It is not selfish to invest time in yourself. You are showing up as the greatest version of you.”- Jeff Wickersham
“I love the power of three, those three things - get them done, get them done early, give everything you have.“- Jeff Wickersham
"Today is a gift you will never get again so how will you choose to use it?"- Jeff Wickersham
Links Mentioned:
The Morning Fire
Get your Complimentary 20-minute Coaching Call with Jeff Wickersham
Jeff Wickersham on LinkedIn
Listen to Your Hidden Edge Podcast with Jeff Wickersham
The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness by Jeff Olson
The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy by Jon Gordon
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz
Rise, Fight, Love, Repeat: Ignite Your Morning Fire by Jeff Wickersham
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About Jeff Wickersham
Jeff Wickersham is a sought-after mental toughness and peak performance coach who specializes in helping clients intentionally step into the best version of themselves personally and professionally. Jeff works with leaders, entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, business owners, VPs, sales teams, and parents guiding them to instill habits and systems that set them up for success. He is also a speaker, Kings of Sparta Mastermind leader, creator of the Morning Fire methodology, author, and host of Your Hidden Edge podcast. As a practitioner of what he teaches, Jeff never puts his clients through what he hasn't already tested on himself to ensure that clients get amazing results.
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Have you found your passion, purpose, and meaning? What’s the key to thriving in your business or any endeavor? How can you optimize yourself for creating and learning? Do you always need money to start something?
Writer, thinker, programmer, TED speaker, circus clown, musician, and former entrepreneur Derek Sivers answers these searing questions in today’s episode. He justifies the consequence of saying no to most things in his life and offers advice on navigating conflicting philosophies and opposing views. He highlights the impact of constantly reflecting, questioning, and doubting your thinking in order to grow and thrive. Listen now and be prepared to expand your mind and ask bigger questions.
Key Points from This Episode:
How would Derek Sivers describe his philosophy?
Derek’s backstory and how his monomaniacal focus on becoming a musician shaped him.
How did Derek recognize at such an early age what his purpose in life was?
Derek’s advice on finding one’s passion and purpose in life.
Why Derek says no to almost everything and his advice for people who want to do the same.
Why starting with no money at any endeavor is an advantage.
Why any business endeavor is about helping other people.
Why the need to look for a different perspective of things has been the norm and way of life for Derek.
Why it is important to remember that belief in something is not necessarily based on its truth but on our choice to believe and accept it because it is useful to us.
Why Derek puts greater value on what he can be instead of what he can have.
Derek talks about his practice of journaling.
Derek answers the rare-air questionnaire.
Tweetables:
“I choose beliefs because they're useful not because they're true.”- Derek Sivers
“It doesn't matter what you're pursuing, as long as you have something that you're pursuing, then everything has drive and purpose and meaning.” - Derek Sivers
“My big success in life, monetarily at least, came from trying everything and seeing what the world would reward me for.”- Derek Sivers
“Why do people believe things that aren't true? It's because they have been useful to them to believe that.”- Derek Sivers
“I read a lot of books but it's not until I stop and reflect on them later, that I feel like I've really internalized it and learned it.”- Derek Sivers
“I really enjoy doubting everything I think.”- Derek Sivers
“It's really useful to constantly question what you're doing and make sure that you know why you're doing it and often it will give you some completely new insight.”- Derek Sivers
“It's who you become, it's not about what you attain or obtain through that path of mastery. ” - Tyler Chesser
“A way to be surprised constantly is to keep yourself living in places that are strange to you.” - Derek Sivers
“The big realizations that may change your life for the better don't come unless you spend some time reflecting, questioning, and doubting your own answers.”- Derek Sivers
Links Mentioned:
Visit Derek Sivers' website
Books recommended by Derek Sivers
Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness by Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
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About Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers is an author of philosophy and entrepreneurship, known for his surprising quotable insights and pithy succinct writing style. He’s a former entrepreneur, founder of CD Baby, and a prolific writer, thinker, programmer, TED speaker, circus clown and musician. He sold CD Baby for $22 million and gave all the money to charity. He has optimized himself for creating and learning, and has cut most extraneous things from his life. Sivers’ books (How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Your Music and People, Anything You Want) and newest projects are at his website: sive.rs