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#78 Living a meaningful life with Derek Sivers: Insights on entrepreneurship, minimalism, and deep happiness

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris

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The Power of Role Models

When he was growing up, me was always not so much a status, but make it money because I had no money. So I joined a circus at the age of 18. A traveling circus lived in the back of a van for a lot of the next 10 years from the Age of 18 to 28. The last time I had a job was 1992; I had saved up $12,000 in 1992,. And I was like, that's it. I'm free. I can afford now to just be a freelance full-time musician. It also helped that I had good role models. They were jugglers and professional magicians and face painters. We've seen people talk about

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