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Derek Sivers on Saying No, Doing What Scares Us and Living for the Future

Elevate with Robert Glazer

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Are We Afraid to Be Not Busy?

I think it's usually fear of missing out and yeah probably just a cultural norm that we're in in our culture where we think we're just supposed to be busy all the time. I aim to not have my time fill that but love to keep my time incredibly empty so that yeah when that occasional great thing comes along you can do it. We don't say yes to something just because it has any benefit you have to think of all the downsides, he says. "You know there's another culture somewhere else in the south of France or something like that where most people do nothing most of the time"

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