Ep. 303 - Jeff Goins: Real Artists Don't Starve

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James Altucher

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🗓️ 11 January 2018

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Jeff is the bestselling author of “Real Artists Don’t Starve.” I’ve wanted him to come on this podcast for over a year. Because he knows the secret to become a “thriving artist.” “That’s somebody who makes money so they can make more...

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.6	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.6	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.6	I know people you know people James, who are writers, actors, creatives.
0:19.4	They're not getting picked by the system.
0:21.6	They're not world famous, but they're thriving.
0:24.6	They're making a living doing the kind of work that they believe in.
0:27.4	I call that the new Renaissance.
0:29.5	I just think it comes down to the fact that nobody is going to believe in you until you
0:33.9	do.
0:34.9	I don't think we fake it till we make it, but we do believe it till we become it.
0:39.1	To be clear, I don't think you have to starve.
0:40.6	You can come what I call a thriving artist.
0:43.2	Walt Disney would, for many years, basically took every dollar that they made and they reinvested
0:47.6	into the Walt Disney company.
0:50.0	They were constantly begging for more loans from the bank.
0:53.1	It was rough financially for years.
0:56.2	But he came to Walt's when things were really taking off.
0:59.6	They wrote him a letter and they said, you're just doing this for the money, you're selling
1:03.1	out.
1:04.1	He wrote the mechal letter and he said, no, no, no, no, you misunderstand me.
1:07.5	We don't make films to make money.
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