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The James Altucher Show

533 - We're Back! 'Question of the Day' Reunion LIVE! Freakonomics Host Stephen Dubner and I Talk Rules to Live By, How to Make Life An Experiment & More

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Calling all "Question of The Day" fans! We're back... For a one-time live reunion. I sit with my good friend and favorite backgammon opponent to comb through our burning questions including how to make life an experiment what makes work stand out from the crowd when it's a good idea to steer from your plans identity economics lies/truth/news why we stopped doing QOD The list goes on. Join us for an episode of laughs. It's a fun one. And tweet us your questions (@jaltucher + @Freakenomics) Thanks James 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: YouTube 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.

0:06.6

This is the James Altiger Show.

0:12.6

Today on the James Altiger Show.

0:15.6

So for instance, I might ask you right now a question I thought that I would like to

0:21.0

know is what is the most James Altiger thing about James Altiger?

0:29.2

What I really mean is if one wanted to emulate you, like what is one essential thing, whether

0:37.6

it's a mindset, a habit, a relationship, whatever, but you cannot be James Altiger without

0:45.7

beings?

0:47.9

My thing is do one thing each day that seems slightly scary and even is very tiny, try hard

0:54.9

to think of something that nobody else has done.

0:56.9

And I just say that was a very good answer for late.

1:00.7

That was very generalizable.

1:02.3

So are you encouraging people to do more frequent and short and probably unsuccessful outcome

1:10.0

experiments?

1:11.0

Yeah.

1:12.0

Okay.

1:13.0

You don't have to have a goal either.

1:14.0

It's interesting to do interesting things.

1:16.2

The interesting thing is to do things and not to think about things.

1:19.3

All right.

1:20.3

Now I'm going to ask you a question.

1:22.3

Okay.

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