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The James Altucher Show

842 - How to improve your critical thinking with Puzzles and Riddles with A.J. Jacobs

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Are you obsessed with puzzles and riddles? When is the last time, you picked up the paper, and start doing the crossword puzzle in them? When is the last time someone ask you a riddle, and you solved it in seconds! In this episode, my good friend, A.J. Jacobs, an American journalist, author, and lecturer best known for writing about his lifestyle experiments came on to talk to me all about puzzles and riddlers and his new book, The Puzzler! He expresses his love for puzzles and riddlers, and how solving puzzles also helps him with his critical thinking! He also told me the stories on his journey of writing the book, including one of the crazies ones where he entered a puzzle competition along with 50 other people!Listen to the episode, and if you like the episode, tweet us on Twitter and let us know what you think!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: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.

0:10.6

AJ, when is this coming out?

0:15.3

April 26.

0:17.5

I really enjoyed reading it.

0:19.9

It's like my favorite topic in the world and you wrote about it.

0:23.2

So two of my favorite things.

0:24.8

AJ Jacobs writing and a book about puzzles that even mentioned as all chapter on chess.

0:29.9

A whole chapter on chess that you were helpful with.

0:34.4

You were my consultant, if I recall.

0:36.8

No, no, Cyrus Lektuala was.

0:39.1

I know, but he, yeah.

0:40.6

You were the behind the scenes consultant.

0:43.2

Okay, I'll go along with that.

0:45.8

But yeah, thank you.

0:46.8

First of all, I'm enjoying the list of features that you were doing.

0:51.5

Oh, good.

0:52.5

That's great.

0:53.5

Yeah.

0:54.5

Listen, if you ever need me to be a guest on that, I'm happy to any time.

0:59.6

Yeah, make, you know, you do make a list on notepad.com.

1:03.4

Maybe we can make a list about the puzzler, notepad.com, n-o-t-e-p-d.com.

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