Newsletter #003
Derek Sivers, Mindless content consumption, and my future music career
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📚 My Favorites
Book: How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion. This book is straight to the point and has some controversial perspectives. I appreciate Derek’s writing style and think everyone would benefit from checking this out.
Distractions: This is the second week of me removing what I’ve labeled as distractions: mindless social media scrolling, excessive content consumption of YouTube videos and podcasts, etc. I have replaced the time that I’d spend doing those things with actions that actually move me forward. However, I wouldn’t be able not to do those things and not be happy, because they give me momentary happiness. So instead I replace them with physically intense and mentally stimulating activities that I enjoy like shooting, performing live music, and skimboarding. I am taking more actions that move the needle forward and most importantly I am doing things that take care of myself. No one else will make me successful or is responsible for my happiness except myself, so I am in this transformation of assuming complete responsibility for my happiness.
🎶 Music
I am in the process of re-evaluating my music career goals. So far, what I’ve got is I’d like to be an original artist that performs live at Coachella and a Tiny Desk Concert. I previously thought to upload covers of myself on YouTube, but then I’m just getting recognized for being a cover artist. Instead, I will begin to follow strategy of Omar Apollo.
“Apollo started his career by creating and uploading his songs to the DIY streaming platform SoundCloud” - Omar Apollo Wikipedia
💬 Quote
“Speak confidently as if you are right, but listen carefully as if you are wrong.”
- Kevin Kelly 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
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