10 Life-Changing Lessons I Learned From Kevin Kelly
1. Get lost before you find yourself.
Kevin Kelly is one of the most interesting humans alive. After dropping out during his freshman year at college, he spent a few years traveling across Asia, working as a photographer.
Today he is known as the founder of the most famous magazine about IT and startups — Wired Magazine and as the author of bestselling books on technology.
Kevin is a visionary and one of my heroes. Below are ten lessons that I’ve learned from watching, listening, and reading him over the years.
1. Get Lost
As the saying goes,
“The only way to find something is to stop looking.”
The first lesson from Kevin Kelly is that your twenties are for slack, play, goofing off, and finding yourself. Productivity is for the middle ages. This probably goes against everything you currently believe in.
Social media does a great job of pushing young people to ‘achieve’ as soon as they can.
In his interview with Tim Ferriss, KK talks about hiring interns for Wired:
“I got involved in starting Wired and running Wired for a while, and hired a lot of people who were…
