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Why we picked it This is the cleanest statement of the exact skill you are missing: not ranking your list, but killing most of it. Sivers' rule is binary. If a thing is not a 'hell yeah', it is a no, and the whole point is that saying no to the mediocre is what buys you the room to go all in on the one thing that matters. It reframes every yes as the cost of a future no you can no longer make.
If you're not feeling 'hell yeah!' then say no
From sive.rs by Derek Sivers 3 min read
- Anything that is not an obvious 'hell yeah' should be a flat no; there is no 'maybe' bucket to hide in
- You miss the great because you are busy with the merely-good, so the good is the real enemy, not the bad
- Saying no to most things is what makes your rare yes powerful enough to actually win