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2147: How I Overcame A Fear Of Flying And Changed My Life In Every Way by James Altucher

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Investing, Business, Education, Self-improvement

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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James Altucher shares how he overcame a fear of flying and changed his life in every way. Episode 2147: How I Overcame A Fear Of Flying And Changed My Life In Every Way by James Altucher 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 Interested in advertising on the show? https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalFinanceDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Optimal Finance Daily Episode 2147, 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 on your host and personal

0:14.5

finance enthusiasts, Diana Mariam.

0:17.4

Welcome back to our Sunday bonus episode, where I share an article with you from a different

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podcast in our network to keep your life nice and optimized.

0:26.7

Today's episode is coming from our very first podcast, Optimal Living Daily.

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And with that, here's Justin with the Post and Commentary as we optimize your life.

0:49.2

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

0:54.5

JamesAltature.com.

0:57.3

I saw a plane crash.

1:00.0

Sometimes people have seen a fake plane crash like in a movie, and sometimes people see a

1:04.1

plane crash on the news if someone miraculously took footage of it.

1:08.4

But I saw a plane crash right in front of me, and hundreds of people were incinerated

1:13.4

that second in front of my eyes.

1:15.3

You might think, why hasn't he written about this before?

1:18.7

For an obvious reason, I'll explain in a second.

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I saw a plane crash, and afterwards I had nightmares.

1:25.1

For the first year I had nightmares almost every night.

1:28.0

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

1:31.9

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

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