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The James Altucher Show

333 - Adam Perlman: ‘Billions’ Writer on The Internal Struggle that Comes With Changing Your Career

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

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4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Adam Perlman is a TV writer, director and co-executive producer. We met on the set of Showtime's “Billions,” which I can now say I am a technical writer for. He's also written for some of my favorite shows like "The Newsroom" and "The Good Wife."...

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.6

This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.

0:12.6

Today on the James Altiger Show.

0:14.8

You know, I spent all of law school kind of in this battle with myself to I want to be

0:19.2

pursuing something more in the arts and entertainment field or to I want to be here in law.

0:23.1

When I went to law school, I had this idea in my head which I've been told by a couple

0:26.5

of people if you can do anything in your life other than working the arts and be happy,

0:31.6

do that.

0:32.8

So when I entered law school, I decided I was going to give up everything else.

0:36.6

Just quit at cold turkey, do nothing to focus on the law.

0:40.2

And I was able to make it three months.

0:42.4

And so the summer after I graduated law school, I'd started to have this really crazy thought

0:46.2

of like, wait a second, what if I did go into the arts and what if I went into TV and

0:51.2

film, which was this thought I'd never had before.

0:54.0

So you basically, you were on track to being one of the top lawyers around because of the

0:58.5

cases you were involved and you could have gotten in any direction possible like banking,

1:02.6

hedge funds, being a top lawyer, being federal, being corporate, whatever.

1:08.4

And you said, screw it, I'm going to start at the bottom in a totally different field

1:13.4

I've never done before.

1:15.4

When did you decide to say, hey, I hate this?

1:18.8

I'm going to write for major TV shows from now on and how that happened.

1:24.0

I'm excited to have Adam Proman here, Adam before you speak.

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