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The James Altucher Show

824- Seth Stephens-Davidowitz: Uncover the World's Secret with Data

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Do you know one of the most google searches in India is a man trying to get his wife to breastfeed him!? I was surprised too!Have you ever wondered what are the most searches on Google? What are the most ridiculous searches on Google? And Google probably has more data on you than any agencies out there!In this episode, I have Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, American data scientist, economist, and author, to talk about his book, Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are.We also breakdown what were the most google searches, how do people use the "secret" data to improve their business and/or their life!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.

0:16.2

Everybody in the world keeps secrets and now there's a way to basically find out the

0:21.4

world's secrets and that's what we do in today's podcast.

0:26.0

So I have on Seth Davidowitz who wrote the book Everybody Lies but it's not that everybody

0:30.6

lies it's that again everybody covers up what they don't want others to know.

0:35.3

But the one entity they don't hide from is Google.

0:39.2

So we know the world's data.

0:40.7

We know the world's secrets from what they enter into Google and other sources of data.

0:46.0

For instance Seth tells me about this incredible fetish that exists only in this one country.

0:52.8

Seth also reveals by the end of the podcast really the secret of all happiness.

0:57.4

There's so much amazing mind blowing data and secrets that we talked about today.

1:04.4

I was just blown away so here it is.

1:16.0

Seth Stevens Davidowitz wrote everybody lies big data, new data and what the internet

1:22.4

could tell us about who we really are.

1:24.7

And there's so much fascinating data in here.

1:28.5

Like I was really fascinated by some of the searches about relationships.

1:32.4

Can you describe some of that?

1:35.2

And then I want to get into your background everything but there's just a lot of interesting

1:39.2

facts in here about what people search for and what that tells us about humans.

1:43.3

Well there are lots of things.

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