540: James Altucher | Minimal Expectations

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🗓️ 18 August 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

James Altucher (@jaltucher) is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, podcaster, and author of several books, including Choose Yourself: Be Happy, Make Millions, Live the Dream. He joins us to talk about -- among many things -- the benefits of minimizing expectations for maximum happiness. The Cheat Sheet: Need to jump start happiness? Lower your expectations. People seem to react better to advice by autobiography than advice by slogan. If a giant stack of money is your be-all, end-all measure of success, you might want to redefine success (or prepare for a heaping helping of disappointment). How does someone live well without renting or owning? The checklist James uses to make sure he's operating as his best self (which also keeps him from disappointing others). And so much more... Show notes at http://theartofcharm.com/podcast-episodes/james-altucher-minimal-expectations-episode-540 HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming!

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0:00.0	This is the Art of Charm.
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0:12.5	Welcome to The Art of Charm.
0:13.5	I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger.
0:15.6	Today we're talking with my friend James Altichir.
0:18.2	He's a serial entrepreneur and author of several books including Choose Yourself.
0:22.7	And I've been on his show.
0:23.8	He's been on mine.
0:24.8	And as you guys know, if you're a fan of James, he's an interesting quirky guy.
0:29.5	And I ask him a lot of questions that make up those quirks.
0:32.6	And I ask him some stuff that maybe for a pretty open guy, some things that he might not
0:36.9	normally think to divulge.
0:37.9	Not that he'd keep them as secret.
0:39.2	And this was interesting.
0:40.2	The way that I prepped for this show is I, instead of reading a bunch of stuff and taking
0:43.8	a bunch of notes from stuff on the internet, I just asked our mutual friends a bunch of
0:48.1	questions that they had about him and then fired away here.
0:51.4	So enjoy this one with James Altichir.
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0:55.6	We bring together the best thought leaders, teachers, and exceptional individuals to teach
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