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#038: Derek Sivers - Focus, Ambition, Writing Clearly & How to Live

London Writers' Salon

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What Does That Say About You?

I think we often make decisions in life based on what we feel we're lacking. I grew up in just a regular, comfortable middle class family. My sister started running the family real estate business and she said, hey, growing up, did you think we were rich? And she goes, yeah, it's interesting. She said, now that I'm running the company, she said, we're not and we never were. Everything was so mortgaged that yes, our company owned these properties. But if we sell them all, it just pays off the mortgage. We were never rich, but we thought we were. See, that's an example of something. That's personal to

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