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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 to Break the Rules in Life

Whatever. That's just a belief that you found useful. It's not true. And it just helps./nPeople break the rules in life./nWhen people have said things like, I don't know, when I started as a gigging musician, I started to get into the university circuit and people said, well, you need to do things this way. You need to submit your application and then wait six months and you'll get proof. I was like, no, I don't think so. I don't./nThink that's going to work for me. I just went straight in through the back door and found my way in and got./nThe gig. There's so./nMany things in life that people can try to hold you down through telling you./nTo do things the normal way. And you need to be able to say,./nYou're stating that like it's a truth, but that's not true. That's just that's something that you believe that's useful for you to believe that because you have a job that pays you to believe that./nBut that's not true. So this is what my next book is about. I love this title. It's so good. I sort of, a lot of people when I was writing my book said, you have to have a framework and you have to tell people how to do stuff. So I literally tried to write the book and at the beginning, I'm like.

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