2259: Is Failure Good by James Altucher on Why You Need To Stop Caring So Much About What Other People Think

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🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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James Altucher dissects whether or not failure is good Episode 2259: Is Failure Good by James Altucher on Why You Need To Stop Caring So Much About What Other People Think 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/failure-good/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Their skiff'd have ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.
0:07.0	It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up,
0:13.0	it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so
0:17.0	a guess. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so, for that one change really.
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0:59.0	This is Optimal Living Daily episode 2259.
1:03.0	Is Failure Good?
1:05.0	By James Altature of James Altature.com and I'm just a molecular personal narrator and I'll get right to our next post as we optimize your life.
1:15.0	Is Failure Good? By James Altature of James Altature.com
1:25.0	Failure is not good. Failure is the worst thing possible. You feel sick. You feel like you're going to die.
1:32.0	You feel like if you don't die you might kill yourself. There's absolutely nothing good about failure and there's nothing you can pretend to learn from failure.
1:41.0	Lately we've been living in the golden age of failure. Everyone wants to share their story. Everyone wants to fail forward.
1:49.0	You can't learn anything from failure because don't forget that every single moment in your past has added up to that one moment in your present where you are lying on the floor, moaning, you're painful and the bismill failure.
2:02.0	Stop whining and stop using the word failure.
2:07.0	Here are better things to learn from. Failure has many cousins. Learn from one of the cousins. Curiosity.
2:15.0	When something happens and you don't understand why then ask why. Keep asking questions. Clearly something confusing happened. Ask and ask and ask.
2:27.0	Guess what will happen? You will get answers. Experiment.
2:32.0	Sometimes people say Thomas Edison failed 999 times before he finally came up with a light bulb on the 1000th try.
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