3536: I Shouldn't Want to Be Liked So Much by James Altucher on Self Worth Over Approval
Optimal Finance Daily - Financial Independence and Money Advice
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:23.7 | This is Optimal Finance Daily. I shouldn't want to be like so much by James Altiture of |
| 0:29.8 | James Altiture.com. I went to a dinner the other night where I was the featured guest and by the end of |
| 0:36.8 | the evening almost everyone there hated me. It feels bad to be so obviously hated and I |
| 0:42.9 | always want to be liked. I probably want that too much. The reason why I was a |
| 0:48.3 | featured guest is because they wanted to talk about the subject of whether or not |
| 0:52.2 | kids should go to college. I had to start off |
| 0:55.3 | with my 10 minutes on the topic, and then the discussion would begin. There were two people there |
| 1:00.8 | from the New York Post, one person who called himself an economist who used to work at Fox |
| 1:06.1 | Business. One interesting woman was starting an online dating service that matches people based on their sense of humor. |
| 1:13.3 | One woman worked at 60 minutes. There were some teachers there. There was one person there who fights terrorists for a living. |
| 1:21.2 | Several people were ex-Washington, D.C. political people. A few lawyers. I felt like I was going to be accepted. But they hated me. |
| 1:31.4 | I gave my 10-minute spiel on it. My main point, student loan debt is higher than credit card debt |
| 1:37.0 | for the first time ever. Kids can't be entrepreneurs or artists anymore. They have to be janitors |
| 1:42.8 | until that debt is paid off. I also stated that a smart, |
| 1:46.5 | aggressive kid with a five-year head start, that is, they don't go to college, will figure out |
| 1:52.0 | all he or she needs in terms of networking, socializing, critical thinking, etc., and not have the |
| 1:57.9 | extra $200,000 of debt and five-year lag that their college-educated peers have. |
| 2:05.5 | To me, this is all obvious. Why go to prison when you can be free? Probably 16 of the 20 people there |
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