665 - 10,000 Experiments Rule by James Altucher

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James Altucher

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🗓️ 29 November 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Most things that you do, should fail. If you don't fail enough, means you're not doing enough experiments. The more experiment you do, the more interesting life, experience, and the more successful you'll have! In this episode, I share my stories on experiments, and how I learn from there, and where they all lead it too! If you like this episode, make sure you tweet at me @jaltucher and let me know your feedback! You could even share some quotes from the episode. Best yet, if you're using overcast or player that can share clips, clips your favorite ones, and tweet at me! 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.
0:10.6	There's a reason why most things you do should vow.
0:19.6	It's because if everything you do succeeds, either you're the best human being on the planet
0:26.2	or you're not experimenting enough.
0:28.8	And so experimenting is something I like to do in order to learn things very quickly
0:36.0	with potentially huge upside and very little downside.
0:40.4	And the more experiments you do in life, I don't want to say the more interesting your
0:45.0	life is.
0:46.0	I don't want to say the more successful you'll be, the smarter you'll be or the more
0:49.8	experiences you have.
0:51.2	But some combination of all of those will happen.
0:54.5	But also you will fail an enormous, enormous amount.
1:00.7	Like I'm going to talk about a few experiments that I've done.
1:03.4	One is when I started the company Stock Picker.
1:05.8	So I started Stock Picker in 2006 and it was like a social media site combined with an
1:12.2	investment site.
1:13.7	But there were really ten projects I started at the same time.
1:18.9	I started all these dating sites.
1:20.9	I started a dating site for smokers.
1:23.4	You know there's a site hot or not where you rate people whether they're hot or not
1:27.8	hot.
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