3626: What You Can Do If You Are a Nobody by James Altucher on Creativity and Idea Generation

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🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3626: James Altucher shares a powerful roadmap for transforming from feeling like a “nobody” into building a life of influence and meaning. Through practical strategies like daily idea generation, relentless creativity, and authentic connection, he highlights how anyone can create opportunity from scratch, no fame, credentials, or big breaks required. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/what-you-can-do-if-you-are-a-nobody/ Quotes to ponder: "Nobody is born a somebody. You have to make yourself a somebody." "If you can come up with 10 ideas a day, that’s 3,650 ideas a year." "To be a somebody, make a platform for yourself. It doesn’t matter if it’s bad at first." Episode references: Choose Yourself by James Altucher: https://www.amazon.com/Choose-Yourself-James-Altucher/dp/1490313370 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.1	This is Optimal Living Daily. What you can do if you are a nobody by James Altiture of James Altiture.com. And I'm Justin Mollick. Welcome to the podcast where I simply read blogs to you for
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