1096: The Greatest Pleasures In Life & What Is The Most Important Factor In Being Happy? by James Altucher on Happiness

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🗓️ 11 December 2018

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2 short posts from James Altucher where he shares the greatest pleasures in life and the most important factor to be happy. Episode 1096: The Greatest Pleasures In Life & What Is The Most Important Factor In Being Happy? by James Altucher on Happiness James Altucher is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, bestselling author, and podcaster. He has founded or cofounded more than 20 companies and says he failed at 17 of them. He has published 11 books, and is a regular contributor to The Financial Times, TechCrunch, and The Huffington Post. USA Today named his book Choose Yourself one of the 12 Best Business Books of All Time. The original posts are located here: https://jamesaltucher.com/2017/12/greatest-pleasures-life/ https://jamesaltucher.com/2017/02/being-happy/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.9	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1096, the greatest pleasures in life. And what is
1:04.1	the most important factor in being happy? Both by James Altoucher of JamesAltoucher.com
1:09.6	and your very own personal narrator Justin Mollick, reading to you from the best blogs I can
1:14.0	find. It's an award-winning show thanks to you. And I have two posts today, both from
1:18.4	James Altoucher. So let's get right to them as we optimize your life.
1:24.1	The greatest pleasures in life by James Altoucher of JamesAltoucher.com
1:33.1	At age 6, Jacqueline Dupre was running cello over her head down the performance hall where
1:38.6	she was one of the performers that day. She was smiling and laughing and running. A janitor
1:45.0	figuring she must have just performed and was relieved and happy at how she did said,
1:49.6	you must have just performed. Congratulations. And she said, I didn't perform. I'm about
1:55.2	to. She died at age 42 in 1986. She's one of the greatest cellists in history. But that
2:02.8	day at age 6, she was so excited to perform that she was running to something. She was
2:08.5	running towards an exciting and uncertain and even scary future. I have to perform and
2:14.2	do well. She wasn't running with relief in the fading of fear. She was running towards
2:19.6	the fear. She grew up to be one of the greatest cellists of all time. I have to give a talk
2:24.5	later today and tomorrow. I'm always nervous and then stand up on Saturday. I have to teach
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