Hell Yeah or No: what's worth doing

Written by Derek Sivers

Narrated by Derek Sivers and Naina Kader

Useful wisdom. Simple profound mental models to guide your decisions.

Overwhelmed? If you feel anything less than “hell yeah!” about something, say no. We say yes too often. By saying no to almost everything, you leave space and time in your life to throw yourself completely into the few things that matter most.

After Derek Sivers’ “hell yeah or no” rule was adopted by podcasters, bloggers, and investors, he compiled related ideas into this useful, profound, and surprising book around the themes of what’s worth doing, fixing faulty thinking, and making things happen. Examples:

• Be proud to be a slow thinker.
• Goals shape the present, not future.
• Assume you’re below average.
• Life has no speed limit.
• What’s obvious to you is amazing to others.
• Relax for the same result.

The first 15,000 early buyers of ‘Hell Yeah or No’ have posted hundreds of 5-star reviews at sive.rs/n — but it is now being released to a wider audience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hit Media
• Release date: Jul 12, 2020
• ISBN: 9781988575995

Derek Sivers

After making a living as a professional musician, Derek Sivers went looking for ways to sell his own CD online and ended up creating CD Baby, once the largest seller of independent music on the web with over $100M in sales for over 150,000 musician clients. Since 2008, Derek has traveled the world and stayed busy creating and nurturing creative endeavors, like Muckwork, his newest company where teams of efficient assistants help musicians do their “uncreative dirty work.” Derek writes regularly on creativity, entrepreneurship, and music on his blog: http://sivers.org/.

Reviews for Hell Yeah or No

[Jason Deal · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Some interesting insights and a fast, enjoyable read…but a lot of contradictory recommendations.

[Kyle Stockton · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Sivers has some intriguing ideas, but the frequent music stings get annoying.

[Nzube Ohalete · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Great book. Derek is a wonderful writer. Things don’t have to be done the “normal” way.

[Sundeep · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Amazing Book by Derek Sivers
So much wisdom and it's life changing.

[srikanth ramanujam · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Well Derek and I are very similar in patterning our life learnings. Except 70 is too much. I wonder how to further reduce these to an even smaller list. Too much is clutter isn’t it?