Adam Lowenstein on Achievement, Honing Craft and Voting

This is Adam's second time on the podcast. And we left our first conversation, which I'll link in the show notes with many cliffhangers and much more to unpack. We took a few weeks and reconnected. And in this conversation, we spend a lot of our time talking around achievement and reorienting the goalpost of our life and how we get swept up by short-term thinking and what we're doing as a selfish pursuit when trying to lead a more fulfilling life. In reality, you should try to develop yourself to be the best version of yourself because you can be a better person for those you care about. And then by proxy for the world. And we spend some time near the end of this conversation, talking about voting.

Culture, Mind SetErich WenzelOctober 2, 2020Adam Lowenstein, Vote, Achievement, Hedonic Treadmill, Craft, Podcast, Isabel Wilkerson, Robert Caro, Chadwick Boseman, Wait But Why, PodcastsComment

Derek Sivers: Creativity, Self-Reliance, and Dropping Assumptions

Derek Sivers(@sivers) is a creative thinker who is quite hard to pin down when trying to explain who he is. Here’s a shortlist of what he’s a done musician, producer, circus performer, entrepreneur, TED speaker, and book publisher. If I could sum up who Derek is, I would say he’s a philosopher and introspective person looking to push his thinking in ways he hasn’t explored yet. He won’t hold any belief or assumption too tightly.