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The James Altucher Show

335 - Wynton Marsalis: How to Find the Jazz of Life: Embrace Your Creativity

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Wynton Marsalis is one of the best and most well-known jazz musicians ever. I had him on to talk about creativity. He's made over 80 albums, sold over 7 million records, and won 9 Grammys (all unbelievable). He even won the Pulitzer Prize in music, which is the 1st for jazz. Now Wynton's the Managing Director & the Artistic Director for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Wynton's whole life is about being creative. He's learned how to transform art from its existing state into something entirely new. That's a skill. And that's what we'll dive into in this conversation: how you, too, can become a master of your own creativity. Show Notes:  Read Wynton Marsalis' article in The New York Times, "What Jazz Is and Isn't" And listen to some of his music on "United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas" Check Out Wynton's Website Be part of Jazz at Lincoln Center Community via jazz.org Autobiography of a Yogi by P. Yogananda I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify   Follow me on Social Media: Twitter Facebook Linkedin Instagram ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

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

0:06.4

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

0:10.4

Today on the James Altiger Show.

0:15.0

What's creativity?

0:16.8

How can someone listening to this become a master of creativity?

0:20.6

How do we pull ourselves out of the choices that have been made for us all our lives?

0:24.6

Go to school, get this job, be a lawyer, retire.

0:27.6

How do we get out of that and be creative?

0:29.4

Go deeper.

0:30.4

Go deeper into what you feel, what you dream, what you know, you have to do it.

0:33.8

No one can tell you how.

0:35.2

We are all created.

0:36.4

We all have it as a man of us being given confidence and expressing it.

0:40.0

When you search with a certain honesty inside of yourself,

0:43.8

what does this mean?

0:44.8

What am I passionate about?

0:45.8

What is it that's making me so sad?

0:47.8

What am I, it's a question of the edge of self, over and over again to find your bliss,

0:51.8

the thing that makes you happy.

0:53.2

There's a him called, you got to walk that loan some value,

0:55.4

you got to go there for yourself.

0:57.0

You buy else can go there for you, but you have to look for it.

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