James Altucher on Accelerating 10,000 Hours to Mastery

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Chase Jarvis

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4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Our world is filled with opportunities. We can more easily share our ideas and pursue our dreams. Even though it’s easier than before, the path is still challenging. If you want to pursue your dreams, you’ll enjoy hearing about how you can skip the line. It’s possible to get catapulted to the front of any discipline in an ethical way. James Altucher shares the path we can follow.

James is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, prolific writer, podcaster, standup comedian, and chess master. He has started more than twenty companies and is invested in over thirty. He is the author of more than 20 books, including the bestsellers The Power of No and Choose Yourself. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Observer, Financial Times, Huffington Post, and TechCrunch. He also writes a popular blog and hosts a successful podcast, The James Altucher Show, that has had over 80,000,000 downloads. An eight-episode docuseries based on Choose Yourself was produced by DNA Films and released on Amazon in 2020.

Highlights from our conversation:

How to use discomfort and curiosity to produce great work
What to think before publishing an article to ensure it’s your best work yet
The art of pursuing your dreams and navigating through difficult times

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, what's up? It's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the Chase Jarvis
0:08.1	Live show here on Creative Live, the show where I sit down with Amazing Humans. And today's
0:12.8	amazing human is James Altiture. Now, you probably know James because he's written somewhere
0:19.3	on the order of 20, count of 20 books. His most recent
0:24.0	one is called Skip the Line, which is a fascinating book. The subtitle of that book is the 10,000
0:31.0	experiments rule and other surprising advice for reaching your goals. So you can imagine a little bit of
0:36.8	the subtext of our conversation.
0:38.2	In this, we also explore how curiosity is perhaps one of the most important vehicles for pursuing the thing that you ought to be pursuing with this one precious life.
0:50.4	We also recap a really fascinating story where James wrote an article about how New York
0:55.6	was forever changed by the pandemic, only to be responded to by the one and only Jerry Seinfeld
1:02.5	in the New York Times. And if that doesn't shake up your world, I don't know what will.
1:08.3	There's so many nuggets in this episode about how to pursue your dreams, how to navigate
1:12.1	difficult times.
1:13.4	James talks very frankly about having a lot of failure going from depressed to bankrupt and
1:19.1	recovering through processes like a gratitude practice.
1:22.8	So fascinating episode.
1:24.8	I can't wait for you to get into it now.
1:26.8	So I'm going to get out of the way.
1:27.8	Enjoy it yours truly plus James Altiture.
1:31.4	Hey, before we get into the show, I've got a quick announcement. My best selling book,
1:36.0	Creative Calling, is now more than 18 months old. It's crazy to think that. But thanks
1:40.8	specifically to support from you, this community.
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