{"podcast":{"title":"Keep Talking","slug":"keep-talking-1331245","podcast_index_feed_id":1331245,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/20210520_005222_a8e19a4cd6d9a7bc6e33dc39aa33e2b3.jpg","author":"Dan Riley","episode_count":155,"summary":"\"Keep Talking\" exists to have conversations that might help to make a better society and a better culture. I believe that each guest has important information and stories to make public. And it's something that I want to share.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-20T02:20:25.098457+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 142: Derek Sivers: How To Keep Growing","slug":"episode-142-derek-sivers-how-to-keep-growing","published_at":"2025-02-14T10:00:32+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-142-derek-sivers-how-to-keep-growing","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans/1893952","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/14586/1893952/humans/2025_02_12_17_36_36_80a44051-cdfc-46a4-b963-2cfb1f9da359.mp3","summary":"Derek Sivers is a TED speaker, an essayist, a businessman, a musician, one of my favorite thinkers on the planet, and the author of many books including his most recent, Useful Not True: Whatever Works For You . ------------ Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Intro (01:00) Your actions reveal your values (03:25) Obvious to you, amazing to someone else (05:19) How Derek thinks about money (13:03) Deep happy vs. shallow happy (21:00) Following an innate drive and desire (24:07) 18 months of feeling adrift (30:04) To find direction: read a lot and wait for energy (31:18) The power of heroes and anti-heroes (36:05) Egotists and hedonists (40:00) Changing your mind and keeping your identity small (44:37) Think of yourself as a student, not a preacher (47:42) Personal growth over wealth growth (53:00) Prioritizing openness (56:59) What lifestyles or beliefs is Derek against? (01:04:50) The downside of optimism in Derek's personal life (01:14:24) Dating, marriage, and the role of women in Derek's life (01:23:55) How to save a life with $2,000 (01:27:50) Derek's thoughts on philanthropy (01:33:54) \"Useful Not True\" (01:38:39) A prequel to \"How To Live\" (01:41:13) \"Useful Not True\": the truth of many answers and perspectives","meta_description":"Derek Sivers is a TED speaker, an essayist, a businessman, a musician, one of my favorite thinkers on the planet, and the author of many books including h…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6414,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/keep-talking-1331245/episodes/episode-142-derek-sivers-how-to-keep-growing/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-142-derek-sivers-how-to-keep-growing.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}