I love Derek Sivers. He’s a musician, an entrepreneur and a dreamer. He gave the best TED talk I’ve ever seen in two minutes flat. He founded CD Baby. He keeps things simple. He likes to help people. Now he’s released a new book called “Anything You Want.”
In the book, he gives a lot of good advice about entrepreneurialism that I really needed to hear. Especially this:
“Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not persistently doing what’s not working.”
How often do we just keep banging our heads against the same closed door? We need to be persistent but we also need to be smart and inventive and resourceful.
Be determinedly persistent in chasing your dream.
Be wildly inconsistent in the paths you take in pursuit of your dreams.
Buy “Anything You Want” by Derek Sivers: http://sivers.org/a
Watch my favorite TED talk by Derek Sivers: http://on.ted.com/9S0O
8 TEDx events in Michigan this year
Michigan will be home to 7 inspirational and innovative TEDx events in 2011 — 8 if you count our friends to the south in Windsor.
- REGISTER NOW for the second TEDxUofM April 8, 2011
- REGISTER NOW for the inaugural TEDxGrandRapids May 12, 2011
- Register April 5th for the inaugural TEDxTraverseCity will be held May 17, 2011
- The second TEDxLansing will be May 20, 2011
- The inaugural TEDxMuskegon will be September 20, 2011
- The third TEDxDetroit will be September 28, 2011 (tentative date - website not updated)
- The inaugural TEDxWindsorEssex will be in October (website is not live)
- The second TEDxFlint will be in October (website not updated)
Please help spread the word to your networks and the public. Let the world know Michigan is home to talented creators, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, geeks, poets, scientists, thinkers and doers.
Follow them all on twitter: @TEDxUofM, @TEDxGrandRapids, @TEDxTVC, @TEDxLansing, @TEDxMuskegon, @TEDxDetroit, @TEDxWindsor and @TEDxFlint.
Derek Sivers will teach you more in two minutes than some professors teach you all year.
“There are doctors in China who believe that it’s their job to keep you healthy. So, any month you are healthy you pay them, and when you’re sick you don’t have to pay them because they failed at their job. They get rich when you’re healthy, not sick.”
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