659 - An Abundance Mindset to Find Success in the New Abnormal with Peter Diamandis

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🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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There is so much complaining and whining out there these days, that's understandable given what was happening in 2020, It has been weird and hard. However, the world is getting more and more abundant, and it's important to have an abundant mindset in order to be an entrepreneur, to solve problems, to think of a better solution even in your personal life! So in this episode, I discussed the abundance mindset with Peter Diamandis, founder, and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, co-founder and executive chairman of Singularity University, and co-author of The New York Times bestsellers Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think. He also has a newsletter Futureloop, which provides the latest insights on exponential technologies and entrepreneurship. 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

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.8	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.8	A lot of people these days are complaining and whining and I get it.
0:21.3	Life is hard and 2020 is the weirdest.
0:26.2	I don't want to say it's the hardest year but it feels like this is a very weird year
0:31.6	and it hasn't felt good.
0:33.5	But I just want to kind of put things in perspective for a second before I introduce
0:37.0	this next guest.
0:39.0	Global life expectancy has only been going up since forever.
0:45.1	So like in 1770 the average person lived about 29 years and in 2010 average life expectancy
0:55.6	was 69.9 years but now average life expectancy is 72.6 years.
1:01.4	Like every year we're going up in life expectancy.
1:05.6	For the first time nearly 60% of the world is using the internet so we're all connected
1:10.6	and exchanging ideas and so on.
1:14.2	Over a billion people have gained access to electricity in the past 20 years.
1:21.0	Renewable energy.
1:23.0	Over energy since 2005 has gone up 20 times from even from 2010.
1:29.1	There was 33 gigawatts generated by solar power last year 724 gigawatts generated by solar
1:35.4	power.
1:36.4	In 2010 global extreme poverty was 15.7% in 2020 down to 9.3%.
1:44.0	No matter what metric you look at the world is getting more and more abundant and it's
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