697 - Think About Probable Impossibilities with Alan Lightman

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🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Another bucket list guest checked off my list! I have one of my idols, Alan Lightman, an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur, to talk about his new book, Probable Impossibilities, and also one of his older books, Einstein's Dreams. We also talked about Alan's constant self-reinvention. His best quote that stuck with me is, "People should reinvent themselves every 10 years." My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. 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

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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.
0:16.3	I cannot believe I have this next guest on.
0:19.2	One of the pleasures of having a podcast is having incredible guests that I've really
0:23.2	admired.
0:24.2	This guy I've admired for almost 30 years.
0:26.7	He's a great physicist and a great novelist both and I also admire people who have more
0:32.0	than one career and more than one passion that they've been able to pursue.
0:36.3	Alan Lightman definitely falls under that category.
0:39.2	I remember reading his book, Einstein's Dreams, in 1993.
0:43.1	I think it was and I've read some of his physics books.
0:46.6	I would say this book is in the physics category but it's just amazing to me A. What a talented
0:52.6	writer.
0:53.6	Be how important it is to express yourself in terms of questions.
0:59.0	Having good questions is truly a sign of intelligence, of creativity, of humility and the ability
1:05.3	to accomplish great things.
1:07.3	And his recent book, Probable Impossibilities.
1:11.0	Basically questions, all the things that we kind of know are impossible but maybe we
1:16.3	can take a good guess what was around before the universe began.
1:20.5	You know how does consciousness exist?
1:22.3	And you might think oh, all these are dumb questions.
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