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Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
Written by Derek Sivers
Narrated by Derek Sivers
Description
HIS STORY IS YOUR STORY.
When anyone can start a business (when everyone is running their career like a business), it begs a question. This is your one chance at life, you can have anything you want, what is worth doing?
Most people don't know why they're doing what they're doing. They imitate others, go with the flow, and follow paths without making their own.
They spend decades in pursuit of something that someone convinced them they should want, without realizing that it won't make them happy.
Anything You Want is a manifesto about living life, appreciating enough, and doing what matters. It's most of what fabled entrepreneur Derek Sivers learned in ten years of starting and growing a small business, compacted into something you can listen to in an hour and a half.
A life worth living starts with knowing your personal philosophy of what makes you happy and what's worth doing.
LET'S GET STARTED.
Reviews
Anything You Want is
Great listen by a great human.
Great listen by a great human.
Great little breathe of fresh air- I’d recommend this to anyone.
this is one of my favorite self-help books! I have listened to this book at least 5 times. the idea of creating a business not for the money is revolutionary! no one talks about building Utopias. this book is so different from so many others. do you get tired of the same old Tony Robinson, Tim Ferriss, and Grant Cardone redundant message this book offer something completely different.
Great audiobook with the clear life lessons of Derek. Keeping your business simple is a major key. However, you must always do what makes you happiest! Thanks Derek, would definitely recommend.
I couldn’t put my ear buds down. Binged the entire book.
Its a good quick audiobook from a average guy who grew his business into millions. its honest, open, and straight to the point. def recommend to others.
I'll listen to this again and again, many insightful moments , best no-frills business education in under two hours.
recommend to all aspiring entrepreneurs
recommend to all aspiring entrepreneurs
An ultimatr favorite, easy to read perfectly brilliantly simple to. understand a must-read time and time again.
Very enjoyable. Very inspirational. I feel that there’s much to learn and reflect on here, and that I will be listening to this more than once.
Thanks Derek.
Thanks Derek.
Came all this way after a YouTuber recommendation, nice to know your story Dereck!
Great book. Derek keeps it simple and practical based on his experience versus the overwhelming stats that we are all supposedly to know about our businesses. Solve a problem and keep your focus on that compass.
Awesome book. Easy, funny and gets to the point. The way to own a business and still enjoying life
It’s incomplete. The audio stops after the chapter 10.
Brilliant book, to the point and informative while being entertaining
Enjoyed it very much. Great stories with a lot of insight.
Such a down to earth and honest book by a guy who seems so humble and genuine in the advice he gives to allow the reader/listener to build a company that puts the customer at the centre and simultaneously allows you to create a job profile that can be anything you want..
Great audiobook in particular - listened and finished on two commutes to and from work!
Great audiobook in particular - listened and finished on two commutes to and from work!
Open and honest, I felt reassured not pressured. Thank you
Learned about Derek from Tools of Titans.
Very interesting guy with actionable insights.
Perfect quick morning listen.
Very interesting guy with actionable insights.
Perfect quick morning listen.
Excellent and brisk read - loved it - a must listen
The audiobook was great. The narrator/author was funny and engaging the entire time. He gives the listener a lot of food for thought.
This audiobook has some truly interesting insights regarding entrepreneurship and the narration made easy listening.
Derek Sivers’ Anything You Want is a quick read. It comes in under an hour if you don’t take notes and don’t stop to think about things. But I am guessing you will want to as there a some pretty inspirational (and easy to implement) ideas for serving your customers.This is not a how-to business book. It is much more a manifesto on keeping things clear, simple and taking a common sense approach to work. Sivers, founded and sold CDBaby.com. This book is a summation of the lessons he learned with the stories that taught him.My favorite part is titled Ideas are just a multiplayer of Execution. Basically he says an awful idea gets a -1 rating while a brilliant idea gets a 20. “No execution” is worth $1 while “brilliant execution” is worth $10,000,000. So a brilliant idea with poor execution will only get you $20 while a weak idea (a full 1 rating) brilliantly executed would get you $10,000,000. These are the extremes and there are tiers between them. It gives you an idea of where your so-so idea with a so-so execution plan would land you. I really like the perspective this lends.Lots of practical advice here. It’s the kind you’d get if you were sitting in the back yard drinking a beer with Sivers. He’s quick to explain, in very plain images, why (to him) legal stuff just doesn’t matter and how business folks don’t stay clear-headed enough. You will not hear these kinds of points being made by any MBA.Basically he sums it up with keep the customer first. You better be solving a real problem. And the success will naturally happen.In such a small book, Sivers crams tons of insight on work ethic, customers (very important), business formalities vs. flying by the seat of your pants, etc. all of which is backed with stories of his founding, running and selling CDBaby.com. He even tells the story of when Steve Jobs dissed him.This book seems to speak to the entrepreneurial spirits out there. But I also think that it serves as a fun quick “gut check” for those looking to tweak their existing business set-ups. I give this one 4 out of 5 stars.
Very short, inspirational, honest account of how CDBaby was created then sold. (CDBaby was a successful early internet company.) He is the kind of guy that would rather be happy than rich and he explores his journey using this criteria. This is so short (1.5hr) and inspirational I will listen to it again. If you like this book you should read "Delivering Happiness" by Tony Hsieh.