#115: The KEY To Skipping the Line By WORKING Your Idea Muscles with James Altucher

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan

Heather Monahan

Self-improvement, Education, Business, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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What is the secret to a good idea? How do you know what to pursue and what not to? Wouldn’t you like to live in an abundance of good ideas? Well, my guest this week, James Altucher, is an idea generator and he can teach you how to be one too! James is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and best-selling author. He’s here to let you know it’s time to stop listening to the “cant's” and start chasing your own success! Skip the line, follow your creativity, and stop asking for permission! It’s time to DO. About The Guest: James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, chess master and prolific writer. He has started and run more than 20 companies and is currently invested in over 30. He is the author of 18 books, including WSJ best-sellers: “The Power of No” and “Choose Yourself”. His latest book, "Skip the Line”, released earlier this year. His writing has appeared in major media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The New York Observer, Techcrunch , The Financial Times, Yahoo Finance and others. His blog, JamesAltucher.com, has attracted more than 20 million readers since its launch in 2010. Finding James Altucher: Website: https://jamesaltucher.com/ Read his book: Skip the Line: The 10,000 Experiments Rule and Other Surprising Advice for Reaching Your Goals Listen to his podcast: The James Altucher Show Watch his show: Choose Yourself: The James Altucher Story Twitter: @Jaltucher Instagram: @altucher To inquire about my coaching program opportunity visit https://mentorship.heathermonahan.com/ Review this podcast on Apple Podcast using this LINK and when you DM me the screen shot, I buy you my $299 video course as a thank you! My book Confidence Creator is available now! get it right HERE If you are looking for more tips you can download my free E-book at my website and thank you! https://heathermonahan.com *If you'd like to ask a question and be featured during the wrap up segment of Creating Confidence, contact Heather Monahan directly through her website and don’t forget to subscribe to the mailing list so you don’t skip a beat to all things Confidence Creating! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	A lot of people feel their ideas are very precious,
0:02.5	and so if they have an idea that's good, they hold on to it,
0:05.3	this is my idea, I don't want anybody to steal it.
0:07.7	And in a weird way, even though they think they have a good idea
0:10.5	that can make them a lot of money, for instance,
0:12.4	it's a very scarcity way to think. It's not an abundant way to think. The abundant way to think is I have a good idea, but that's because I always have good ideas. Not all my ideas good, most of them are bad, but if I keep practicing writing down ideas,
0:25.0	I will have more and more good ideas.
0:27.0	I don't care if anyone steals my ideas.
0:28.4	If someone steals my idea and does it, power to them.
0:31.4	They're not the sort of person I want to deal with but at least I know
0:34.0	and they were probably better suited to the idea than me anyway because they did it
0:37.6	faster than I did it. I'm on this journey with me each week when you join me we are
0:41.9	going to chase down our goals, overcome adversity and set you up for a better tomorrow.
0:48.0	That's and no secret.
0:50.0	I'm ready for my close-up.
0:51.0	Hi and welcome back. I'm so excited today our guest is an entrepreneur and angel
0:57.1	investor he's achieved the rank of chess master which is insane and he's the author of Wall Street Journal's best-selling book, Choose
1:05.9	Yourself.
1:06.9	He started 20 companies, 17 of which have failed.
1:10.8	But he's learned a lot along the way and lucky for us. He's included it all in
1:16.2	skip the line his new book. James Alterter, thank you so much for being here today.
1:20.4	Heather, thanks for inviting me on your podcast.
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