803 - The 5 Worst & 5 Best Nobel Prize Recipients with Unni Turrettini

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Is the Nobel Prize fair? Is anyone that won the Nobel Prize deserves, the Nobel Prize? Or is there anyone out there who deserves the Nobel Prize more?In this episode, Unni Turrettini, a writer, lawyer, citizen activist, and international speaker, who came on to talk about The History of the Nobel Prize, and loneliness, came on to discuss her 5 best and 5 worst Nobel Prize winners. And of course, I also talk about who should've won the Nobel Prize, and is the Nobel Peace Prize really for peace?Listen to the episode, and find out more!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 PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotify Follow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------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.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.8	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:16.4	Such a pleasure to talk to Ooni Tertini.
0:18.6	Ooni wrote the book, The Train, The Nobel, which she's been on the podcast before.
0:23.2	We talked about some of the worst winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, but now we expand
0:27.8	out and look for the five best and five worst Nobel Prize winners in any category.
0:32.3	It's kind of like an interesting walk through history, both good and bad of the past 150
0:39.1	years since the Nobel Prize started.
0:52.1	So with every area of life, it's hard to compare the greatest players now with the greatest
0:58.4	players a generation ago.
1:00.5	If they were to both play right now at the peak of their skills, the generation ago would
1:04.7	always lose.
1:06.4	But you have to wonder if the generate, like if Arthur Ash from the 60s had learned tennis
1:13.3	now, would he be anywhere near as good as the best tennis players now?
1:17.6	I don't know.
1:18.6	Anything with Nobel Prize winners, like the amount of physics that Albert Einstein knows
1:24.4	is actually tribully small compared to the average graduate student at any university in
1:30.6	the world.
1:31.6	So it's hard to compare them at the peak.
1:33.9	But of course, if Albert Einstein was in graduate school now, what would he discover?
1:37.6	It would be amazing.
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