Ep. 46 - Chris Guillebeau: How to Find Your Life's Quest

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2014

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Our guest for today is one of the most extraordinary people that James has ever encountered.By the age of 35 he had already reached his goal of visiting every country in the world... Today, American entrepreneur, nonfiction author, blogger, and speaker Chris Guillebeau, joins The James Altucher Show to talk about his most recent book, The Happiness of Pursuit and his passion for seeking life-changing experiences. He shares intimate details and insight to his travels that have not been revealed anywhere else.How did his quests affect his relationships, goals, career, and self-image?What challenges did he encounter?Nothing is off limits!We feel it's one of the best interviews yet. His stories and vision of the world will open your eyes to endless possibilities.His words of wisdom are a reminder to listeners that yesterday will never come again... but you have today! ------------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.
0:06.5	This is the James Alteter Show on the Stansbury Radio Network.
0:12.9	I'm here with Chris Gillabo and Chris.
0:24.9	Welcome to the show.
0:25.9	Hey James, thanks so much.
0:27.3	It's a huge honor.
0:28.6	You know Chris, I like to do the show around this idea that people can choose themselves
0:35.2	for career, for success, for happiness and these choices, they make these choices rather
0:43.9	than making the choices that have been imposed on them by society, whether it's parents
0:49.2	or corporations or the mythology of what we're supposed to do.
0:53.0	And you have really, you're like the pinnacle example of someone who's chosen himself.
1:00.1	Well, that's kind of you to say.
1:02.1	I think my values are certainly aligned with your mission.
1:05.8	I mean, for what I've been trying to do with art of non-comformity, it's a very, very
1:09.3	similar mission statement.
1:10.5	I've always said that the mission statement of what I'm trying to do is to help people
1:14.3	understand they don't have to live their life the way others expect.
1:17.8	They can do good things for themselves and for other people at the same time.
1:21.1	It's not a false choice.
1:22.1	And, you know, here's, here are all the stories of different people around the world who've
1:25.3	done that, you know, in their own way.
1:26.7	So I think that, I think you said some very powerful things there.
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