312: James Altucher - Reinvent Yourself, Defining Freedom, Comedians See The Truth
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
James Altucher (IG: @altucher) is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, chess master and prolific writer. He’s started 20 companies (17 have failed but he’s learned a lot along the way) and is currently invested in over 30.
James is the author of 18 books, including Wall Street Journal bestsellers: 'The Power of No' and 'Choose Yourself'. His latest book, "Reinvent Yourself" was #1 in the Amazon store shortly after its release.
His blog, JamesAltucher.com, has attracted more than 20 million readers since its launch in 2010. James hosts a successful podcast, "The James Altucher Show" which has over 30 million downloads.
In this episode, we discuss:
- James' experiment with minimalism
- Always rent, don’t buy a home
- The idea of practicing change
- Money, materialism, and consumerism
- Comedians see the truth
- Challenge yourself
- 10 ideas a day
- Executing on an idea
- Self-care is a part of life
- Practice staying in the moment
- Don’t read the newspaper or watch the news
- Lessons James learned from his Dad
- What is success?
- Invest in improving yourself
- Defining freedom
- Improving relationships
- Time to rest, time to rejuvenate
- Don’t let money get in the way
- Always focus on what's happening now
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| 0:00.0 | life isn't about any one philosophy, like minimalism or any is, it's about being comfortable with change. |
| 0:06.7 | Almost like reburthing your identity that has this sort of freeing feeling. Hello and welcome to the ultimate health podcast episode 312. |
| 0:17.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:25.0 | Each week we will bring you inspiring and informative conversations about health and |
| 0:29.8 | wellness, covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, |
| 0:33.0 | and so much more. |
| 0:35.0 | And this week James Altature is back on the show. |
| 0:38.0 | He's a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, chess master, and Prolific Writer. |
| 0:43.4 | He's started 20 companies, 17 have failed, but he's learned a lot along the way, and is currently |
| 0:48.4 | invested in over 30. |
| 0:50.3 | James is the author of 18 books, the Wall Street Journal bestsellers, |
| 0:54.3 | The Power of Know, and Choose Yourself. |
| 0:56.7 | His latest book, Reinvent Yourself, was number one in the Amazon store |
| 1:00.5 | shortly after its release. |
| 1:02.3 | His blog, James Altiture.com has attracted more than 20 |
| 1:05.9 | million readers since its launch in 2010. James hosts a successful podcast, The James |
| 1:11.6 | Altiture Show, which has over 30 million downloads. |
| 1:15.0 | Super impressive. |
| 1:17.0 | Before we get into the details of what was discussed with James, |
| 1:20.0 | I'm super excited to share with you about a new product that was launched in collaboration |
| 1:25.5 | with Chalice Spice, which is a local artisan tea company, and they're also available online. |
| 1:31.6 | Over the last few weeks, I've been formulating the perfect pregnancy tea for each |
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