442 - Justice Sonia Sotomayor: Lessons From a Supreme Court Justice on How to Persuade & Convince
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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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. |
| 0:10.0 | Today on the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:15.7 | Many years ago I was in a five star restaurant and it was at a time when I was still a little |
| 0:21.3 | bit ashamed of my diabetes and I hit it. |
| 0:24.6 | Well you're ashamed. |
| 0:25.9 | Well when you're different than other people I think your innate instinct is to hide it. |
| 0:32.9 | It's also very frustrating and it's something difficult to explain. |
| 0:38.9 | So this happened during that phase in time. |
| 0:42.3 | So I went into the bathroom and I took my shot but it was a small bathroom. |
| 0:49.5 | I should have realized the door was open and someone could come in but I finished taking |
| 0:53.4 | the shot and the woman came in and I just put it away and left the room. |
| 0:59.5 | As I was leaving the restaurant I walked by that woman seated at a table with a companion |
| 1:06.8 | and as I was walking by I overheard her lean over and in a whisper say she's a drug addict. |
| 1:15.4 | I stopped and I know that I must have turned red. |
| 1:20.6 | And at first I was ashamed and then I got angry. |
| 1:24.2 | I walked back to her and I said I'm not a drug addict. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm a diabetic and that medicine saves my life each day. |
| 1:32.7 | Why do you make such horrible assumptions about people? |
| 1:37.0 | If you don't know something ask about it. |
| 1:40.2 | Don't assume that people are evil just because your mind is and I walked away. |
| 1:47.5 | That moment has stayed with me my entire life. |
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