Good or Bad: Stories!

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Is it possible to discuss the good and the bad of stories? What are the good and the bad of stories?In this episode, my good friend, A.J. Jacobs joined me to talk about the good and the bad of stories!Listen to the episode, and feel free to tweet at me @jaltucher, or AJ @ajjacobs and let us know what do you think about this new subseries?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	Welcome to Good Or Bad.
0:03.8	I am so excited, AJ, for this particular episode.
0:06.8	I have to say I am excited too.
0:09.6	Because it's an interesting one because it's stories, good or bad.
0:14.7	Our stories good or bad.
0:16.5	And what I think is interesting is I make my living from telling stories as to you and
0:23.0	yet I have become very more and more skeptical of stories.
0:28.3	Well, it's interesting because in a very broad definition, maybe we can get to this,
0:33.1	very broad definition, everyone makes their living from stories.
0:36.2	But let's just stick to the fact that professionally you and I write stories and get paid for them.
0:42.2	Right.
0:43.2	Well, that's a good place to start though.
0:44.2	The defined stories.
0:45.6	I think today we're talking about nonfiction stories, true story or allegedly true stories.
0:52.3	But I would say fiction stories and nonfiction stories have the same structure.
0:55.6	Well, that's what I think.
0:57.1	I think a story, well, the way we're going to define it today is it's something that
1:01.8	has a beginning, a middle and end.
1:04.8	It's got characters with motivations.
1:07.9	Good story usually is conflict and resolution.
1:12.7	And that's as opposed to sort of data like just, you know, the.
1:18.5	Here's what the economy did yesterday.
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