Anything You Want — third edition for 2022
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Hi, I'm Derek Sivers, and this is Anything You Want, third edition for 2022. In 2011, I got a phone call from a number I didn't recognize. Hello? Derek, it's Seth Godin. Wow. Hi, Seth. I'm starting a new publishing company, so I want you to write a book. Short, like a manifesto. Will you do it? Uh, sure. Great. I look forward to it. Thanks.

Over the next 11 days, I wrote the lessons I'd learned from starting, growing, and selling my company. He liked it, named it Anything You Want, and a few weeks later it was for sale. My first book. Simple as that. To me, it was no big deal, just telling my tale. But a lot of small business owners said my book helped them remember their purpose and get re-excited about their business.

Penguin bought Seth's publishing company and re-released my book on Penguin Portfolio. But I wanted to self-publish. I want to own the rights to my books so I can do what I want with them. Give them away, let people translate them, or sell them how I like. I'm thinking long-term. I've got many books to come and I want them to be a matching set. So, I bought back the rights from Penguin.

I improved many chapters in Anything You Want and added eight new chapters that were missing, points that people kept asking about over my last ten years of talking about this book. Better explanations, better stories. Then I gave it a new cover to match all my other books, white to represent its innocent naivete. I recorded the new audiobook better than before. And now it's finally available in its third and final edition directly from me.

Anything you want. 40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur. Get it at Sivers.com. There are only 5,000 limited edition linen hardcovers printed, so get that version while they last. Even if you already read it, consider getting this as the permanent edition. The first copy is $19, which is $15 for the content and $4 for the paper itself. All future copies cost only the price of the paper, $4.

Paper books include all digital formats for free. As before, I'm giving all profits to charity. Go to sive.rs.a3.