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1569: How I Overcame A Fear Of Flying And Changed My Life In Every Way by James Altucher on Growth Mindset & Resilience

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🗓️ 28 March 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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James Altucher shares how he overcame a fear of flying and changed his life in every way. Episode 1569: How I Overcame A Fear Of Flying And Changed My Life In Every Way by James Altucher on Growth Mindset & Resilience 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 post is located here: https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/overcame-fear-flying/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1569, how I overcame a fear of flying and changed

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my life in every way by James Altature of JamesAltature.com and I'm just a

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mallock, a very own personal narrator today and every day, not a typical

0:37.1

podcast or are no interviews and it's short almost always fewer than 10

0:40.8

minutes. For now let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.

0:48.5

How I overcame a fear of flying and changed my life in every way by James

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Altature of JamesAltature.com I saw a plane crash. Sometimes people have seen a

1:00.6

fake plane crash like in a movie and sometimes people see a plane crash on the

1:05.0

news if someone miraculously took footage of it but I saw a plane crash right

1:10.2

in front of me and hundreds of people were incinerated that second in front of

1:14.6

my eyes. You might think why hasn't he written about this before? For an obvious

1:19.1

reason I'll explain in a second. I saw a plane crash and afterwards I had

1:23.9

nightmares. For the first year I had nightmares almost every night. The nightmares

1:28.5

would have two forms either I'd see a plane crash in the nightmare, the obvious

1:32.3

one, or I'd have a nightmare that a title wave was coming over New York City and

1:36.0

I'd try to run to escape but I could never run fast enough and I'd wake up in a

1:39.5

panic, super vivid. I had this nightmare on average five times a week for the

1:44.6

first year then it'd be about once a week for the next four years and then it

1:48.7

finally started to die down. For some reason every time I moved into a new

1:52.2

apartment I started having the nightmares again. I don't know why. When I moved

1:56.8

into Airbnb's I didn't have the nightmares. I lived in Airbnb's for three

2:00.9

years. I think big changes that seemed permanent would trigger the nightmare for

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