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#135 Beyond Comfort - Derek Sivers on why great musicians shake things up, ambition, and moving to a new country as a superpower, lessons from Singapore, and the scripts around having children

The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

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How Important Is Your Self Identity?

I think we underestimate how important our self-identity is, how you see yourself. Your brain is filled with so much novelty. Also, you get to reinvent who you are. If I'm given the bad end of the stick, I flip the stick and find a way to be on top of any situation. Even if it's just my internal representation of it,. even if everything's gone wrong, I can ask myself what's great about this?

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