E138 - James Patterson, world's best-selling author: 75 years of learning has taught me this…
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
James Patterson is one of the world’s most successful authors, having sold over four hundred million books.
In this episode James takes us through the challenges of his career and the ‘Eureka moment’ that made him quit marketing and become a full time writer. Having co-authored books with Bill Clinton and Dolly Parton, James explores how to best build relationships, earn trust and the importance of laughter. Having grown-up working class, and gradually made his way to the wealthy upper class, James explains how authenticity is key within his work, and personal, life.
Finding the thing at the core of everything he does is key to Jame’s work, if he can find the core of every book the story can truly begin. Jake, Damian and James discuss how he keeps an inventory of his strengths and weaknesses, the importance of exploration and the value of education.
Warning, there is swearing in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm Jay Cumpfrey and you're listening to high performance. Our |
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| 0:30.6 | team. But this podcast reminds you that it's within your ambition, your purpose, |
| 0:36.5 | your story, it's all within. We just help you unlock it by turning the lived |
| 0:40.4 | experiences of the planet's highest performers into your life lessons. So right |
| 0:45.0 | now allow myself and Professor Damien Hughes to speak to the greatest |
| 0:48.5 | leaders, thinkers, sport stars, entrepreneurs and in this case authors on the |
| 0:53.6 | planet so they can be your teacher. Remember this podcast is not about high |
| 0:58.0 | achievement or high success. It's about high happiness. It's about high |
| 1:01.8 | self-worth and taking you closer to a life of fulfillment, empathy and |
| 1:06.8 | understanding. Today the most successful author on the planet joins us on high |
| 1:13.2 | performance. It seemed to me to make sense to do something that I like to do |
| 1:18.4 | when I started writing and I loved it and I said well it's somehow I want to |
| 1:22.8 | try to figure out how to do this, you know make a living out of it. You know |
| 1:25.6 | the secret of life is finding something that you love to do and then and then |
| 1:30.0 | it's a miracle somebody will pay you to do it. You know you're gonna make a pitch |
| 1:34.1 | to President Clinton on why he should you know write books with you or you know |
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