Useful Not True - Softcover

Sivers, Derek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0473453045 ISBN 13: 9780473453046

Verlag: Sivers Limited, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Personal effectiveness

“Useful Not True” is about reframing.

Success in anything starts with your perspective which affects your strategy — your actions.

Your first thought (“this is a disaster”) feels true, but it’s not the only perspective.

Your first thought is an obstacle you need to get past by realizing no thoughts are necessarily true.

After your initial impulse, consider other perspectives, then choose the thought that’s more useful to you — the one that makes you take effective actions.

Understanding others

People share perspectives, not facts. They tell you how they see things.

Like someone across the world telling you the time. Maybe it’s true for them, but not for you, and not for most other people.

Brains lie to their owners. Nobody knows the real reasons why they do anything.

When someone says, “I believe…”, then whatever they say next is not a fact. No beliefs are necessarily true.

Beliefs are perspectives. Explanations are confabulated. Obligations are wishes. Rules are arbitrary. They’re useful, but not necessarily true.

Knowing this gives you empathy, as you understand people’s incentives behind their beliefs.

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Derek Sivers is an author of philosophy and entrepreneurship, known for his surprising quotable insights and pithy succinct writing style.Formerly a musician, programmer, TED speaker, and circus clown, he sold his first company for $22 million and gave all the money to charity.Sivers' books (How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Your Music and People, Anything You Want) and newest projects are at his website: sive.rs

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Sivers Limited
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0473453045
• ISBN 13: 9780473453046
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
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