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Derek Sivers - musician, entrepreneur, scanner, player
30Jul2009 Filed under: Beat your creative block, How to be a happy scanner, How to be happy, Interviews, Make more money, Play all day, What shall I do with my life? Author: John
Derek Sivers is a remarkable guy. He’s best known as the founder of CD Baby which he sold for $22 million last year but he’s also been a professional musician and at one point a circus clown.
He is very much a Scanner who has found a way to manage his addiction to learning, creativity and variety to launch multiple businesses and have fun doing it. When I read that he treats his work as play, I knew I had to interview for him for my book “Screw Work, Let’s Play”.
Derek is a real joy to listen to. You can listen to our entire interview right now and hear how he answers the dreaded question “What do you do”, what beliefs and habits have contributed to his success, and what was the most important haircut of his life…
Just click the play button below
Got some good ideas of your own?
If listening to Derek has inspired you to go further with your own ideas,
join us in The Ideas Lab on 12th August.
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This is the personal blog of John Williams, author of "Screw work, let's play: How to do what you love & get paid for it" to be published by Pearson in June 2010.
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lynne Smith
July 31st, 2009 at 10:35 AM
Hello John
I seem to only have 5 minutes of the interview - do you think it’s an issue at my end (i’ve got a Mac)?
John
July 31st, 2009 at 10:44 AM
I’m on a Mac! Have you tried giving it time to download and just pressing play again?
jaimie
August 3rd, 2009 at 10:58 AM
that was excellent! just what i needed
how do you spell the word that sounds like onwee?!
Julian Bolt
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:51 PM
What an inspiring interview. It was a long session, but I was still eager for more at the end. Definitely a person whose state of being is educative, leading by example rather than explanation. It’s a revelation to hear about someone who would buy a ticket to India to find out what he wants, AND feel totally at ease with it. There’s a lot of food for thought there, and I’m sure I’ll be listening to it again, perhaps many times.
I thought your questions were very well timed, John, and very well balanced. You seem to be getting better and better at this. I had the strong feeling he was in a safe pair of hands for this interview.
John
August 3rd, 2009 at 6:34 PM
“ennui”
Sandy Demspey
October 17th, 2009 at 8:55 PM
John and Derek,
This is one of the best interviews I have ever listened to. Ideas, passion, enthusiasm. Great questions. Great answers. Loved it!!
Thank you.
Sandy Dempsey
John
October 17th, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Thank you Sandy!