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Josh Waggoner
Renaissance Life is a podcast about CREATIVITY, MASTERY and the pursuit of an extraordinary life. If you're looking to become a master of design, entrepreneurship, writing, music, coding, swimming, cooking, learning and or all the above this is the show for you! If you want to be the best version of yourself you can be, but you don't have a community to push you forward - or are feeling stuck and not sure what to do - or need practical steps towards learning and achieving your dreams - or find yourself unsure of your next step in life - Man or Woman, The Renaissance Life is for you. Welcome to the Renaissance
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Welcome to another episode of the Renaissance Life — a podcast dedicated to the pursuit of creativity, mastery, and a meaningful life.
Today’s episode is a conversation with the wonderful Kevin Kelly.
Kevin Kelly is the co-founder and Senior Maverick at Wired. He is also the co-chair of The Long Now Foundation, an organization that champions long-term thinking. Kevin Kelly has also written a number of best-selling books, including The Inevitable, an excellent book that guides you through the 12 technological imperatives that will shape the next 30 years and transform our lives. I highly recommend his newest book, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier, which is a fantastic read chock-full of wisdom and insight.
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Links from Conversation:
- kk.org
- Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
- Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies Simulate to Innovate by Michael Schrage
- Stewart Brand
- The Whole Earth Catalog
- Danny Hillis and The Connection Machine
- The Clock of the Long Now
- Peter Schwartz (futurist)
- Kevin Kelly — Excellent Advice for Living | The Tim Ferriss Show
- Science Museum of London
- Brian Eno
- Kevin Kelly's daily AI art piece
- Khan Academy Khanmigo
- Timothy Leary
- Rule of Three
- Esther Perel
- Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse
- Hymn of the Cherubim - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Jessica + Yoga Landing:
- Yoga Landing
- INSTA: @YogaLanding
- INSTA: @JessicaJollie
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Links Discussed:
- Lumineers (Spotify)
- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Amazon affiliate)
- Hush Kids (Spotify)
- U2: One Tree Hill (Spotify)
- Bikram Yoga
- Ashtanga Yoga
- Power Yoga
- Ujjayi breath
- Gut-Brain
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Show Notes:
Colin on the Web:
https://colin.io/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/colinismyname
Insta: https://instagram.com/colinismyname
FB: https://facebook.com/colinwright
YT: https://www.youtube.com/colinismyname
https://letsknowthings.com/
https://brainlenses.com/
https://curiositygadget.substack.com/
https://exilelifestyle.com/
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Links Discussed:
- Atlas Shrugged
- Lexicon by Max Barry
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- The Reagan Show — Hulu
- Brandson Sanderson
- Patrick Rothfuss
- Arlo Parks
- Kyle Craft
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Derek Sivers: How to be More Happy, Creative And Purposeful (RL #16)
Links Discussed:
- Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur: Derek Sivers
- Kimo Williams: There’s no speed limit | Derek Sivers
- Mr. Money Mustache
- sivers.org/balance
- Making Money | Small Business Advice from Jason Fried of Inc.com | Inc.com
- Project management software, online collaboration: Basecamp
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson Collection Book 1) Mark Manson
- Mark Manson - Author. Thinker. Life Enthusiast.
- Seth’s Blog
- How to Live | Derek Sivers
- Your Music and People | Derek Sivers
- Hell Yeah or No | Derek Sivers
- About Benny - Fluent in 3 months - Language Hacking and Travel Tips
- Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World: Benny Lewis
- What I’m doing now | Derek Sivers
- sites with a /now page
- Happy Smart & Useful | Derek Sivers
- John McWhorter, Ph.D. The Great Courses
- Sivers.org/book
- Movie reviews and ratings by Film Critic Roger Ebert | Roger Ebert
- Ace in the Hole movie review & film summary (1951) | Roger Ebert
- Amber Rubarth on Spotify | Amber Rubarth on Apple Music
- Claude Debussy on Spotify | Claude Debussy on Apple Music
- Abida Parveen on Spotify
Derek on the web:
- Sivers.org
- Twitter: @sivers
- Derek's TED talks
- Derek's Podcast
- Tim Ferriss: Derek Sivers on Developing Confidence, Finding Happiness, and Saying "No" to Millions (#125)
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A Few Favorite Takeaways:
"I get inspired by Ideas. But I've also noticed that I get really, really inspired by serving others."
“You can’t actually pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Right? Like that's an old slang saying, but ultimately you have to be lifted by those around you. Meaning you can't just act like it's only you in this world and you're going to get some passive income somehow and just think about nothing but yourself.”
“My happiest creative friends I know are the ones who balance making money with making their art."
On Learning Something New:
- Find a good book and focus.
- “Then my next bit of advice for learning something new is to set up a or find multiple teaching sources, like say like a video course and three different books. I found the hard way that different perspectives really help you see something clearly.” “Have different teachers teach you the same thing, meaning, [from] different sources.”
- And then lastly, deliberate practice where You understand that learning something means you're going to have to not just sit and read about it, but, but do it.
Q: Is this really helping me or hurting me?
Last Two:
A question to ask yourself:
“Find the opposite point of view of anything that you currently think is true. Just pick something that you think of as true right now. And find a way to think about the opposite of it. (and good luck doing that with politics.)”
Challenge / Action Step: Email Derek :)
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RL 15: Alex Lavidge — Entrepreneurship, Personal Branding and Investing in Yourself:
Twitter: @alexlavidge
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Show notes:
http://www.startupchamps.co/
Startup Champs on Facebook
The Company Lab (CO.LAB) – From Idea to Business
The Greatest Generation
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy: Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
Norman Rockwell, Four Freedom Paintings
StrengthsFinder 2.0: Tom Rath
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction: Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World (Exponential Technology Series): Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup: Bill Aule
Soundview Executive Book Summaries | Business Books | PDF, Audio, Video
Muse™ - Meditation Made Easy with the Muse Headband
Welcome to Optimum Health Institute (OHI)
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals: Michael Pollan
Planet on Purpose: Your Guide to Genuine Prosperity, Authentic Leadership and A Better World: Brandon Peele
“You can stumble and fall, make errors and mistakes, but you are not a failure until you start blaming others, including fate, for your results.”
— John Wooden
“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
― John C. Maxwell
”What are the better lessons and characteristics of the older generations we emulate and copy that into the future to incorporate our own authentic voice?”
“Like you and what you’ve said in your previous podcast in our conversations if you really want to be a Renaissance person, you've got to invest in yourself and you've got to have those habits and those routines and really understand time management and, and just know how to, focus”
“I think the way to cure loneliness is to know thyself. It's not complicated. Right? And you can only know thyself if you can sit in silence and reflect and write and connect with other people one on one.”
“If you're gonna sell something, people have to see the vision and they have to, it has to be something they can, touch or it has to be tangible.”
“If you are an inspiring entrepreneur, you could do worse than get your start in journalism.
Because journalism teaches you how to ask thoughtful questions and how to do due diligence and how to do your research so that when you do write that business plan or you do put together that strategy, you can really be clear about what do you mean and how do you know. So that you can make calculated decisions moving forward.”
“Before launching a company and be an entrepreneur and a CEO is to be the CEO of your own life. Think about how your own life can be run as a business. What does that look like? Do you as an individual, do you have a board of advisors?”
Do you have a personal brand? Do you have a website where you are sharing your thoughts and your ideas and establishing your own credibility? Do you have just business cards that you're passing around to people that you meet and say, Hey, this is who I am. This is what I'm passionate about. If more entrepreneurs took or aspiring entrepreneurs took the time out to build that personal brand and run their own lives, like a business where not just on the promotion side, but also on the operation side, you're, you're tracking where you spend your time and at the end of each month you sit back and you're like, huh, that's really interesting.”
“Life works when you let it and as long as you do things in the right order.”
“I think it's important to be aware of your decision-making process and because one of the issues where we, I think we all stumble is we, we don't know how to prioritize in a way that aligns with our values and what we really care about, where we're always bombarded with limited time and resources and way too many decisions that we could be making.”
“It's the things you let go that you don't see are the things that change your life.”
“Sometimes the easiest solution is often in the right one.”
“She has a plan. So you're saying it more succinctly than I am. That's the advice is just to make sure that you have a plan. And place that if you are going to do creative work, whether it's, you know, do music or, or do art or do writing or do photography or do film or whatever your creative outlet is, just to be thinking about how that's going to affect your livelihood, how that will impact the people in your life around you.”
“We make the story, we tell ourselves real.”
Three Skills I would want to master:
Statistics / Data Science
"statistics, I think data science, and predictive modeling and that sort of stuff. It's just such a universal skillset that you can apply towards anything."
Grammar & Writing
Music Theory
Parting Question:
How is your trauma holding you back? And how are you healing your inner child?
Action Step:
Sit down with people that you trust, that you look up too, that have done it themselves, and to say how, how can I start first looking at how I can run my life like a business and look at all the different things you want to measure in your life.
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Justin Butts @Mute0n — How to Become a Working Artist:
Insta: @Mute0n
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Notes:
Charles Bukowski:
So You Want to Be a Writer
Books Mentioned:
Cherry by Nico Walker
Women: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
post office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
People Mentioned:
Briks
Paul Wilm
Jesse Bean
Broken English Taco
On busy friends: “I think everyone's busy so it's important not to take anything personally”
On mentorship: “I just pay attention to what people do”
On being an artist: “It's in you deep dude. It's like I don't even know how to explain it. had a moment when I was painting in my apartment in Birmingham when I realized like holy crap. This is why I'm here or that moment of realization of purpose and just like wept as I was painting this painting and I have never felt like that doing anything else maybe running and. So it's just like. I don't know if there wasn't social media or any of that shit. I'd still be doing it because it's just a part of me and it's why I believe I'm here.”
On overwhelm: “I take some CBD. Try to stay calm and then I make a list with boxes and check off things one at a time.”
On getting good at what you do:
“How do you get good at something? You practice it constantly.”
“That’s a way to get better at your craft, hang out with people better than you. And people that do different work than you.”
CHALLENGE:
Just self-love is important — practice that every day as much as you can
Spend time with yourself. Get to know yourself. I know a lot of people have problems with being alone. I spent a lot of time alone, and I think it's really.
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Design, Photography, Freelance & Living a Multi-Disciplinary Life with Joseph Shipp
Today's guests on the Renaissance Life show is multi-disciplinary Joseph Shipp
We go into some fun topics, including starting a magazine which eventually leads him to meet his future wife, 10-day meditation retreats and what it takes to be a designer, freelancer and multi-disciplinary person
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Shownotes (... kind of, I really need to 😴 will add more later)
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Health, Fitness and Build a Thriving Community with Kyle House Fitness.
Today's guests on the Renaissance Life are Kyle House & Kyle Miller from Kyle House Fitness.
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RL011: A Year of Saying Yes, Mental Health, Improv and more with Ludine Pierre
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Shownotes:
Books:
Brenè Brown
Documentaries:
Surf Wise
Music:
- Fiest
- The Wild Reeds
- Grizzly Bear
- The Shivers
- Das
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RL010: Joshua C. Green from Permanent Record Drums & Summer Dregs
"If you do something every day, you're going to get better at what you are doing."
"You have one very vapor-esque life on this earth, you're here for a very short time — it's like a blink — what are you waiting on?"
Two Josh's sit down and have a jolly good time discussing music, philosophy, pain, health and wellness, daily challenges and more. If you like fun, you'll love this episode.
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Shownotes:
Summer Dregs
Infradig
The Distribution
Instagram: @PermanentRecordDrums
PermanentRecordDrums.com
"One of the best things you can do as a human is to be in a band when you're young because even if you are super crappy, you are going to have to make creative decisions and argue and work stuff out"
Book: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Book: The Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson
Book: Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Book: On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Music: Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood
Music: Kruder & Dorfmeister
Music: Sampha
Music: Hayden Calvin
Music: Mutemath
Music: Kye Kye
Podcast: Joe Rogan
Podcast: Comedy Bang Bang
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RL009: Stratton Tingle: Musician and Director of SoundCorp
Stratton and I have a fun conversation about all manner of things including his career in music so far, travel stories and pursuing creative work.
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RL007 (interview) Ben Schnell: Web Developer Extraordinaire
A conversation on web development, how to become a web developer, life, religion, freelance travel, and more.
Ben's Links
schnell.io
Mastery happens on the day to day.
Whatever we can do to set up our day right to practice our skills will create space for us to become masters in each.
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On The Rise — A Daily Mantra for a Meaningful Life
For Entrepreneurs and Creatives alike.
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Question 1: What is your mission in life?
What gets you up in the morning?
It's a doozy of a question, I know, but once you have an answer to this question, you will be more clear, and focused than you have ever been.
Take some time on it. Really think about it.
Where do I want to make an impact?
What do I enjoy doing?
What can support my efforts?
The crossroads to these questions will help you find your mission in life.
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How to Become a Renaissance Man / Renaissance Woman today
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Becoming Renaissance
- Choose a set of skills (3 - 5) you would love to be a master.
- Make them into daily habits by practicing in a small way. make it something stupid small, the easier it is, the more likely you'll make a habit out of it.
- Prioritize your skill list. Choose one that's the most important to you RIGHT NOW, focus on it first. Build up your abilities in that skill before pursuing the next. Developing multiple skills at once is possible, but it's far more likely (and easy) if you stick with one at a time.
- Study the greats of today and from history. Who is a master in what you want to do already? What can you learn from their path? What systems do they have in place?
- Add regular feedback, and measurements to your routine to get the most improvement in the shortest amount of time. Remember, what gets measured get's managed. Measure things in a way that is easy rather than difficult. If it takes longer to measure than it does to practice your skill, figure out a way to simplify.
Simplify simplify simplify.
Mastery happens on the day to day. Whatever we can do to set up our day right to practice our skills will create space for us to become mastery in them.
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RL002 The Art of Starting
Leave a 5 star Review if you're awesome! Not a review, nobody wants that, just tell me a book you've enjoyed recently.
It just takes one step to start something brilliant.
'Pressfield' josh 'pressfield', not presserfield you fool.
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RL001: Choose to Be Different
The Renaissance Life Podcast, dedicated to Excellence, Mastery and a life of meaning and worthwhile.
A podcast made for Learners, Dreamers and Do'ers.
If you desire Excellence.
If you want to rise to Mastery.
If you want to be the best version of yourself you can be.
but you don't have a community to push you forward -
or are feeling stuck and not sure what to do -
or need practical steps towards learning and achieving your dreams -
or find yourself unsure of your next step in life -
Man or Woman, The Renaissance Life is your path.
Welcome to the Renaissance!
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