Tags: [[🌲️/%]] - [[Emulation]] - [[🌲️/Business]] - [[Automation]] - [[Entrepreneurship]] - [[Creation]] - [[Independence]] - [[Learning]] - [[Education]] Title: [[% 2020-10-06 Derek Sivers Innovation Versus imitation]] URL: https://youtu.be/JNkqvi29LBs Host: [[@Shane Parrish]] Guest: [[@Derek Sivers]] Podcast: [[The Knowledge Project]] Reference: Publish Date: 2020-07-21 Reviewed Date: [[2020-10-11]] --- <center> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JNkqvi29LBs" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> </center> --- [(45 second AirrQuote)](https://www.airr.io/quote/5f7ce1f415ac4a4868947ba0) **Transcript:** almost inarguably went up a little bit. How much is is sort of like a relevant, but the ability, the desire of the person on the other end toe own the idea to execute. It went down and it always went down by so much that the expected outcome from the project is always almost always worse off. I love that you brought this up. I think this is a very underrated insight. Um, did you read? I think it was Marshall Goldsmith spoke? Yeah, I think that's where I actually sort of, like, got the words around it. But, you know, like, yeah, look at you here. Well, there. Yes. What got you here won't get you there. Um, yeah, I think the way he put it [(45 second AirrQuote)](https://www.airr.io/quote/5f7cdc2515ac4a210f947af3) **Transcript:** of people who imitate or in buffet, right. They talk like him. They go to McDonald's every morning, they eat their eggman coffin and they say all the right things and being able to distinguish between Warren Buffett and these people, if you couldn't see them, would be really hard. But then a crisis hits on their paralyzed like they don't Actually, they're not buffet right, And it's only through that crisis that it's revealed. So like this. Thats whole thing in life is also like, How do you tell the difference between somebody who's imitating and somebody who is the real deal, like who's who actually understands? Ah, that's a great question. I was hoping you have an answer. No, let's just leave. That is a beautiful rhetorical question for the audience. - You can imitate people that you admire and replicate their behavior, but when the cards are down, if you you do not have the fortitude to stick to your guns, then the imitation was worthless since you wont receive the same outcome at the person you're emulating since you couldn't follow through where they did. - [[Imitation and emulation is worthless if you cannot emulate the individual through even the toughest of circumstances and see the tough times through]] [(45 second AirrQuote)](https://www.airr.io/quote/5f7cde2515ac4a0f6d947b1b) **Transcript:** would just show up to work and just answer my employees questions all day long, and I hated it. I hit my breaking point like I really like deep work. I really love focusing, you know, for work to turn into this constant state of every five minute interruption just made it unbearable. I stopped going to the office. I started shutting off my phone until I realized that I was running from my problems instead of solving them. And I I realized like this was kind of a do or die moment. Like I need to fix this or I'm toast. I just kind of had a long night of writing and thinking and reflecting on this, and I just realized I need to make myself unnecessary to the running of my company like this. I - [[When you can automate yourself out of your business that is when you own a business not a job]] [(45 second AirrQuote)](https://www.airr.io/quote/5f7cdacc15ac4a24ed947ad5) **Transcript:** that you are getting other people to use? You know, innovation versus imitation. For most things, I just find innovation more fun, and we're humans. Fund matters if I get more joy out of doing it this way, and it takes me six hours, but it's fun versus yeah, I could just click this link and be done with it in 10 seconds, but it's less fun. I'm sorry. Now I'm back to making a website, not ordering wine. I find it fun to order wine for 90 minutes. Um, yeah. If you find the process for like, some people make their own furniture, right, you can visit somebody's house is like I made that table. I made that chair. Of course, they could have gone to I Kia to buy one, but they chose to make it cause they wanted Teoh. - Innovation and the act of pure creation is more fun and engaging that just copying something that just works made by someone else - [[The act of pure creation is more appealing than the copying of a well known solution]] [(45 second AirrQuote)](https://www.airr.io/quote/5f7cdeff15ac4aa13c947b54) **Transcript:** four million. Sorry, sorry. No grew from one million to 20 million in four years. I could grew from eight employees to 85 employees while I was away, like, just basically without me. To me, that was the lesson. Like the huge difference between being self employed and being a business owner. There was actually from the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki That I kind of learned this idea of, um if you know, you're a true business owner when you could leave your business for a year and come back a year later and find that it's doing better than when you left, that's when you're no longer self employed. You're a business owner on lastly, for anybody [(45 second AirrQuote)](https://www.airr.io/quote/5f7cdcda15ac4a09ef947b07) **Transcript:** toe almost everything and leave space in your life. Leave free time. But this is not relaxing its strategic because then when something great comes along like something that makes you say Oh, hell, yeah, that would be awesome. Then not only can you say yes to that, but now you have the time and energy to throw yourself into it completely like now you can give it your all the, you know, the baseball metaphor. You could knock it out of the park. And I think strategically, it's better to do five big things with your life instead of 500 half asked things. You know, I think that applies to a lot of things, right. And it's better trade, you know, be [(45 second AirrQuote)](https://www.airr.io/quote/5f7ce69815ac4a1fca947c20) **Transcript:** or somebody else's story. But you're doing the mental work of reflecting, integrating, digesting, and then you're coming up with these directors like so much of life. Today is like just give me the directive and we haven't done the work in [[Spaced Repetition]] like monkey Azarias flashcards a lot of people say you just give me somebody's deck so I can learn javascript or whatever, but like No, no, no, no, no, no. Like the whole point of flashcards and memorization is like after you've learned this thing, you make the flash card to help your future self remember it like the flash card is not the moment of learned. So, yeah, I feel the same way about the directives. Although there different [(45 second AirrQuote)](https://www.airr.io/quote/5f7ceca915ac4a636c947ca8) **Transcript:** thin the love avoidant friend All of my friends do. The thing that friends do to each other is, they say, like, do it. It's all right, you know. I'm sure you know it's for the best. I'm not sure something inside you probably knew that this wouldn't have worked out anyway. Like No, no, no, no, no, no. Hold on. We should not sugar coat everything because we really learn best from pain. Like pain teaches us like nothing else. I think I need to feel the pain of this mistake and not write it off. It's like, Oh, it's for the better anyway. No, it's not. I need to feel that pain So that the next time something like that comes into my life that I don't make the same mistake.