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The James Altucher Show

835 - Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.: The Five Levels of Attachment

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever have a strong attachment to something that  it's almost impossible for you to let go of? Well, this is the episode for you!In this episode, I invited the son (another) of don Miguel Ruiz, don Miguel Ruiz Jr., the author of the books: "The Five Levels of Attachment", "Living a Life of Awareness", "The Mastery of Self", and "The Don Miguel Ruiz's Little Book of Wisdom" on to talk about exactly that! We talked about my attachment to New York when I finally decided to leave, and he advised me on how to deal with it. Then talked about this origin story! How his father, don Miguel Ruiz, set up a situation for him, push him in that direction, and see what he can do, and his first-ever speaking gig, how he improved from that!Visit Notepd.com to read more idea lists, or sign up and create your own idea list!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:YouTubeTwitterFacebookSHOW CONTR ------------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.

0:15.8

So the other day we had on Don Jose Ruiz, one of the sons of Don Miguel Ries who wrote

0:21.8

the book The Four Agreements, one of the most inspirational and best-selling self-help books

0:26.3

of all time of all time and sold tens of millions of books, The Four Agreements, Don Jose Ruiz

0:31.2

had written The Fifth Agreement and today very honored to have Don Miguel Ries Jr., Jose's

0:37.2

brother Miguel Ries's son.

0:39.2

He's written several books related to The Four Agreements as well including The Five

0:43.4

Levels of Attachment, The Mastery of Self, The Mastery of Life.

0:48.5

All of these are great, beautiful books and very excited to have them on and talk about

0:53.6

all these ideas and he helped me considerably during this podcast when I heard his own experiences.

0:58.8

So here it goes.

1:03.0

Have you ever lived in New York?

1:10.6

No, no, I was just telling Jay that I like to, I basically, New York has frequency

1:14.6

I have friends and I always stay in different neighborhoods.

1:17.0

I figured the way to really get to New York is every time I go in and I just so totally

1:21.6

get to different neighborhood and that way you get to explore it.

1:24.4

Yeah, no, I lived in New York more or less, lived in and around New York all my life and

1:30.0

then at one point I decided to throw away all my possessions and then just live in Airbnb's

1:36.3

all around New York and really get to know New York.

1:38.9

Like I lived in a different neighborhood almost every week.

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