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Modern Wisdom
The speaker discussed how this book was inspired by a theme underneath his previous four books, which was choosing beliefs because they were useful rather than necessarily true. He aimed for the book to be catchy so that the little examples would stick in the reader's head for years afterward.
And then the hard part for me was to make it catchy. I decided with this book, I was aiming to be catchy because I wanted the little examples to stick in your head for years afterwards.
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Episode: #847 - Derek Sivers - The Unstoppable Power Of Ref...
The speaker discussed how this book was inspired by a theme underneath his previous four books, which was choosing beliefs because they were useful rather than necessarily true. He aimed for the book to be catchy so that the little examples would stick in the reader's head for years afterward.
And then the hard part for me was to make it catchy. I decided with this book, I was aiming to be catchy because I wanted the little examples to stick in your head for years afterwards.
And then what you see in this little tiny hundred page book that you can read in 90 minutes or less, is me trying to take everything I learned about this subject and compressing it into short, memorable little fables.
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The host asked whether the guest had read Derek Sivers' book Useful Not True, highlighting it as a recent reading suggestion.
Did you read Derek Sibber's book, Useful Not True?
