Derek Sivers: Real rebellion is going to school wearing a clown suit
Guest
· 1 year ago
I just realized why I never took to San Francisco. I love having something to rebel against! It's easier for me to love LA because so many people hate it. But San Francisco... because everyone LOVES it, I can't!
sf
· 1 year ago
oh. really sad seeing this on your blog.
Guest
· 1 year ago
why?
Julia Brown
· 1 year ago
It takes you by surprise sometimes, just how "lonely" lonely dissent can be.
Sometimes you have to rebel, not only against the crowd, but against your friends and your family. And your own natural tendencies. Giving up everything you don't want to get everything you want can be really hard.
But that's the real work, isn't it?
Jules
(I happened upon the Peter Schiff video today from a completely separate source. Peter Schiff must feel SO VINDICATED right now.)
fluffy
· 1 year ago
Yes, but what's his track record, and the track record of the other experts? He may have just gotten lucky. The fact of the matter is that you can't really predict the future, you can just detect patterns and speculate. And sometimes you just get lucky and make a completely oddball prediction which just happens to be right.
If he's a Cassandra that's one thing, but there's such a thing as randomly being right, too.
fluffy
· 1 year ago
Oh, and also on the same point, if he'd been completely wrong, who would have remembered at all?
J-Lon
· 1 year ago
Yes, but that's always the risk of rebellion. Whether it's the start-up, the social movement, or the band trying to get its thing across, you have to go out in the woods, do your thing, and hope that some other people follow you. That's very lonely. I wish I'd understood that better when I was in my teens and twenties. I probably would have accomplished more.
Vyasa
· 1 year ago
Type your comment here .I doesn´t Know,! !! Dig? STOP MAKING SENSE ! George Bush had just a comment on news; he said: ... the blame for our economic downfall is that we monitor too much our economics, rather than let it flow ´ NATURALLY ´.... to me it is a kind a same statement when Reagan went: ´ FACT`S ARE STUPID THINGS ....` George is probably the worst president ever...laughs.. oh my ....
Vyasa
· 1 year ago
MIND ya guys: Motzart died age 34 and was realized over 100 years later by some music scientist who discovered his compositions and went ´ wow´.... Bird died 34, too... the doctor predicted his age 64... Hendrix died with just a few bucks on in his account.. at age 27.... Marley was 36... Himself predicting his death and illness 3 years earlier.... ´Me gwon die at 36 like the Christ... ` Who are the real revolutionists? and what it is?
Now you tell me...
Steve Kusaba
· 1 year ago
I love that you mention Peter Schiff. I have been following him for many years and he still understands the mechanical forces that are moving the markets about as good as anyone (Doug Noland also) . If a person follows what he is saying you can make a lot of money. Musicians will tend to try to make their money with music and that is like going to the desert to find water in some cases. There are people with their water hole that they find but on the whole there is a lot more sand than anything else. (big name acts are statistical freaks)
The best markets, energy precious metals and uranium have been sold off into the dirt because of a belief that there will be deep deflation. On TV this is what everyone is saying, the so called experts. (guy Adami, Dennis Gartman, Steve Forbes, Robert Praechter (who will still claim deflation when canned corn costs a 100 dollars a can) and every one else that parrots them. Peter understands that the "deflation" that we are having is from de-leveraging. Banks, hedge funds and everyone else short the dollar and long assets in leverage are being made to unwind the positions due to margin calls and redemptions. This forces buying of the dollar which will ultimately crash after this impulse is played out. It is true that the credit lockups of the past two years have killed businesses everywhere. There are plenty of real reasons to think that a vicious deflation is underway. My opinion is that they will only go into the greater depression after the currencies collapse and that gives everyone time get their act together in preparation for this.
There is tons of money sitting idle. When money velocity returns and the effects of the massive increase in the worldwide monetary base kick in the next round of inflation will be whithering. Many assets being shunned now will return 100 to 1 or much more later when the sentiment changes. Intelligent investing frequently involves doing what everyone is not doing in a large way at critical turning points. If someone knows the correct gold, silver, oil/gas, uranium stocks to purchase they will be blown away at what they make. If someone does not want to think much and just play for solid returns of merely 100% and better they could just buy silver and gold. Hold it in a foreign country because currency controls are coming. Then when you are rich go do what ever you want in music backed by your mighty wealth. You won't have long to wait the printing presses of the worlds currencies are humming right now!
Thats amazing that you guys are following Peter. Bud Conrad, Jim Willie, Doug Noland, Jim Turk, Mark Faber, Puru Saxena and many others provide great insight into the complex world that we are members of.
Vyasa
· 1 year ago
I just saw Steve S. video. ... few years ago he predicted the down fall of economics. Yep...They laughed at him.... but who´s laughing now? ... it is always the same.!! Like, When Finland went to EU money union, I predicted , what is in fact , now happening. The prices have gone up 400- 600 hundred % compared what it used to be. An example: coffee and a bun - now 3.80 € - Before, 3 marks ...1 € = 6 marks... and this was just 6 years ago .. Fuller´s EBS ale 6.70 € in pub...Today!. I Drank it, so I should know! And so on... count for ya self.... I am poorer than ever because the paychecks are dragging.... like they always do...mind ya : THE ONLY LEARNED PERSONS ARE SELF TAUGHT. THE OTHERS ARE TAUGHT. - Erno Paasilinna, Finnish Writer.
Mr.Voxius
· 1 year ago
real rebellion is realizing that no matter what you wear, they can't take away your thoughts.
davidmiller
· 1 year ago
Related:
“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.” - Howard Aiken
matt
· 1 year ago
this is true.
except when that band genuinely sucks.
Laura Roeder
· 1 year ago
I was just thinking about the INCREDIBLE amount of well-intentioned but terrible advice I receive every single day, some of it directly to me personally and a basically unmeasurable amount if I count what I could spend all day reading online. Thanks for this reminder that others are not going to get it, you just have to follow the path you create for yourself.
Frank
· 1 year ago
Actually, Peter was part of a large group of Austrian Economists predicting the current crisis over the last decade (just as Mises predicted the 1929 crash in the early 20's and Hayek predicted the results of Hoover and FDR's policies in the early 30's). The problem is the only Austrian Economists that ever get airtime on the 3-letter gov't propoganada outlets are Peter Schiff and Jim Rogers (and more recently, Ron Paul).
Kathena Bryant
· 1 year ago
Right on! What glee we got out of this video. Thanks for using this to encourage musicians. My partner Tim Champion and I are determined to make this a big year for our band and for our music. Our plan is to stay busy making music and gigging and making videos and making guitar pedals.. So far very good for The Hippy Nuts. and Tim Champion pedals just got selected in the Best of 2008 in Premier Guitar Magazine. It's a brand new business and it's so exciting to be selling so many so soon. Derek, you said to just jump in and start a business without lengthy business plans. Thanks for sharing those pearls of wisdom. Everybody, keep on smiling. Kathena
Jerry
· 1 year ago
Just to say hi, and best wishes for this holiday season!!!!!
All Comments
Sometimes you have to rebel, not only against the crowd, but against your friends and your family. And your own natural tendencies. Giving up everything you don't want to get everything you want can be really hard.
But that's the real work, isn't it?
Jules
(I happened upon the Peter Schiff video today from a completely separate source. Peter Schiff must feel SO VINDICATED right now.)
If he's a Cassandra that's one thing, but there's such a thing as randomly being right, too.
to me it is a kind a same statement when Reagan went: ´ FACT`S ARE STUPID THINGS ....` George is probably the worst president ever...laughs.. oh my ....
Bird died 34, too... the doctor predicted his age 64...
Hendrix died with just a few bucks on in his account.. at age 27....
Marley was 36... Himself predicting his death and illness 3 years earlier....
´Me gwon die at 36 like the Christ... ` Who are the real revolutionists? and what it is?
Now you tell me...
The best markets, energy precious metals and uranium have been sold off into the dirt because of a belief that there will be deep deflation. On TV this is what everyone is saying, the so called experts. (guy Adami, Dennis Gartman, Steve Forbes, Robert Praechter (who will still claim deflation when canned corn costs a 100 dollars a can) and every one else that parrots them. Peter understands that the "deflation" that we are having is from de-leveraging. Banks, hedge funds and everyone else short the dollar and long assets in leverage are being made to unwind the positions due to margin calls and redemptions. This forces buying of the dollar which will ultimately crash after this impulse is played out. It is true that the credit lockups of the past two years have killed businesses everywhere. There are plenty of real reasons to think that a vicious deflation is underway. My opinion is that they will only go into the greater depression after the currencies collapse and that gives everyone time get their act together in preparation for this.
There is tons of money sitting idle. When money velocity returns and the effects of the massive increase in the worldwide monetary base kick in the next round of inflation will be whithering. Many assets being shunned now will return 100 to 1 or much more later when the sentiment changes. Intelligent investing frequently involves doing what everyone is not doing in a large way at critical turning points. If someone knows the correct gold, silver, oil/gas, uranium stocks to purchase they will be blown away at what they make. If someone does not want to think much and just play for solid returns of merely 100% and better they could just buy silver and gold. Hold it in a foreign country because currency controls are coming. Then when you are rich go do what ever you want in music backed by your mighty wealth. You won't have long to wait the printing presses of the worlds currencies are humming right now!
Thats amazing that you guys are following Peter. Bud Conrad, Jim Willie, Doug Noland, Jim Turk, Mark Faber, Puru Saxena and many others provide great insight into the complex world that we are members of.
And so on... count for ya self.... I am poorer than ever because the paychecks are dragging.... like they always do...mind ya : THE ONLY LEARNED PERSONS ARE SELF TAUGHT. THE OTHERS ARE TAUGHT. - Erno Paasilinna, Finnish Writer.
“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.” - Howard Aiken
except when that band genuinely sucks.
our band and for our music. Our plan is to stay busy making music and gigging and making videos and making guitar pedals.. So far very good for The Hippy Nuts.
and Tim Champion pedals just got selected in the Best of 2008 in Premier Guitar Magazine. It's a brand new business and it's so exciting to be selling so many so soon.
Derek, you said to just jump in and start a business without lengthy business plans.
Thanks for sharing those pearls of wisdom. Everybody, keep on smiling. Kathena