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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

1468: How to be Rich - THE PUSH AND Give and You Receive by James Altucher on How To Pursue Happiness

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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2 short posts from James Altucher on how to be rich & give and you receive. Episode 1468: How to be Rich - THE PUSH AND Give and You Receive by James Altucher on How To Pursue 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/blog/how-to-be-rich-the-push/ & https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/give-and-you-receive/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Machines wherever you get your podcasts. This is Optimal Living Daily episode 1468,

0:36.1

How to Be Rich, The Push, and Give, and You Receive. Both by James Altature of JamesAltature.com,

0:43.7

and I'm Justin Mollock, the guy that reads to you every single day of the year, including weekends

0:47.6

and holidays, to help you live a more meaningful and positive life. Two posts today, both from

0:53.1

James Altature, so let's get right to them as we optimize your life.

1:01.2

How to Be Rich, The Push, by James Altature of JamesAltature.com

1:06.8

Rob told me, J.B. Musted. J.B. was my best friend growing up, when we sat next to each other on the bus.

1:13.6

After school, we'd play ping pong or pinball or monopoly or ride bikes. Every single day we did

1:19.8

this for eight years, then we drifted apart. Rob said the last time I spoke to him, he sounded

1:25.9

like a ghost. It was like there was nothing there, Rob said. I hadn't seen J.B. in 20 years.

1:32.4

He dropped out of college, Rob said, and never really had a job. His parents gave him money to live.

1:38.0

He didn't want to do anything. He changed his phone number every few weeks, Rob said. So he was

1:42.5

hard to keep in touch with. I didn't understand why did he change his number every few weeks. He'd

1:47.6

meet a girl and then a few weeks later he'd get tired of her but not want to deal with it. He

1:52.0

changed his numbers so the girl couldn't reach him, Rob said. Man, he moved a lot. He had no

1:56.9

Facebook page, no internet presence. It was hard to track him down, Rob said. And it's true, I had

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