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The James Altucher Show

Ep. 81 - Astro & Danielle Teller: Sacred Cows

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Business, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Today James goes through therapy. As a father of two young children, he felt he was going to ruin his kids by going through a divorce. He felt he was a loser, believing that divorce is a personal failure and that married people are better than divorced people. Astro and Danielle call this The Holy Cow. In their book, Sacred Cows, and on today's podcast they talk about the promise we all make when we get married. "I'll love you forever" We make this unreasonable promise to each other, yet we can't know how we're going to feel in the future. No one can know. This is a fascinating interview as they dive into the effects on the children, the social norms of today, and the reasons people get married in the first place. Invest in yourself and listen here today.     I promise you, you won't be disappointed ------------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.

0:06.4

This is the James Alteter Show on the Stansbury Radio Network.

0:21.1

So I'm here with Astro Teller and Danielle Teller and first off you guys before I fully

0:28.2

introduce you, you talk about one of my most favorite subjects which is the importance

0:36.1

and sometimes the ludicrousness if I said that right on how we as a society treat marriage.

0:45.1

And I'm just going to introduce you really quickly Astro.

0:48.7

You're in charge of Google X which is like the driverless car, Google glass and a whole

0:54.3

bunch of other things.

0:55.7

Danielle, you've been an MD, you've been a professor at Harvard, now you're in Palo Alto

1:02.7

raising 4Ks and you both just wrote this excellent book about marriage called Sacred

1:08.5

Cows.

1:09.5

You've also done a TEDx talk about the Sacred Cows of marriage.

1:14.8

How did you even come onto this topic?

1:17.5

Like why were you almost disappointed in the way the marriage vows are structured in

1:25.6

our society?

1:26.9

Well, it started from our own personal experience and it wasn't just around the way marriage

1:34.3

vows are structured but we're both divorced.

1:38.1

What?

1:39.1

You should be ashamed to yourselves.

1:41.1

I am.

1:42.1

Yes, exactly.

1:43.1

So what do you do?

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