The Instigator Series: Living Your Truth with Kamal Ravikant

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

• Episode: The Instigator Series: Living Your Truth with Kamal Ravikant
• Website: The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
• Feed URL: https://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/rss
• Duration: 01:06:03
• Published: 2013-11-04 09:00

This week, we're unveiling the speakers of our first in-person event, The Instigator Experience. Our first instigator, Kamal Ravikant, is an advisor/investor to startups and the author of Love Yourself Like Like Your Life Depends On It. 

• Kamal's Journey of Experiences that Led to Entrepreneurship 
• Why All Your Experiences Impact the Ones that Come After
• A Look at the Early 90s and the First Internet 
• Some Key Insights into Developing the Ability to Lead Your Audience
• The Power of Giving a Tremendous Amount of Value to the People You Connect With
•  Why Entrepreneurship is Easier Today than It Was 10 Years Ago
• How to Take Your Skills and Transition into a Role as an Advisor/Investor
• The Power of Doing Work for Free in a Strategic Way
• Why You Have to Share Your Work with the World and Get Feedback
• How Kamal Used a Low Point in His Life to Do Some of His Greatest Work
• Using the Pomodoro Technique to Write Larger Bodies of Work

Tweetable Insights Include:

• A true leader offers value to whoever they're with  (Click to Tweet)
• This really is the best time in history to be an entrepreneur (Click to Tweet)
• It's the best thing there is to create something that exists because you created it (Click to Tweet)
• Honesty comes from the heart. It comes from expressing your truth (Click to Tweet)
• If there's any recipe to success, it's just taking action and iterating (Click to Tweet)
• I think the only failure is if you don't give it your effort (Click to Tweet)
• If you attach your sense of self to an outcome, that's when you crash (Click to Tweet)
• When you Stop Focusing on the Outcome, You Make Better Decisions (Click to Tweet)
• Core memories that make us who we are require leaps of faith (Click to Tweet)
• The worst case scenario is you'll be better off for having done it (Click to Tweet)
• If you create something that connects with them, people will share it (Click to Tweet)

Kamal Ravikant has been fortunate enough to have some amazing experiences in his life so far. He's trekked to one of the highest base camps in the Himalayas, meditated with Tibetan monks in the Dalai Lama's monastery, earned his US Army Infantry patch, walked 550 miles across Spain, lived in Paris, been the only non-black, non-woman member of the Black Women's writers' group, written a novel, held the hands of dying patients, and worked with some of the best people in Silicon Valley. You can follow him on twitter @kamalravikant. If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here to post it to Twitter.