How to Live: 27 Conflicting Answers and One Strange Question

This is not an ordinary self-development audiobook: it’s partly psychological nonfiction, partly a collection of witty moral lessons, and partly a philosophical essay about practical wisdom. Its author is a pioneer of the music business and a programmer, Derek Sivers, who sold his first company for $22 million and donated all the money to charity. To write this book, Sivers spent four years reflecting on everything he knows and has learned. The result of his work is in these pages. In short, author uses sharp aphorisms to talk about what makes up our life from the first to the last day: work and calling, relationships and obligations, as well as creativity, independence, thinking, memory, skills, luck, and the art of doing nothing.