James Altucher: Skip The Line (#119)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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In Skip The Line: The 10,000 Experiments Rule and Other Surprising Advice for Reaching Your Goals, James Altucher busts the 10,000-hour rule of achieving mastery, offering a new mindset and dozens of techniques that will inspire any professional—no matter their age or managerial level—to pursue their passions and quickly acquire the skills they need to succeed and achieve their dreams. This episode is itself an experiment, as Brian onboards James to Clubhouse and uses it to interact with listeners live. James is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, chess master and prolific writer. He has started and run more than 20 companies and is currently invested in over 30. He is the author of 18 books, including WSJ best-sellers: 'The Power of No' and 'Choose Yourself'. His latest book, "Reinvent Yourself" was #1 in the Amazon store shortly after its release. His writing has appeared in major media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The New York Observer, Techcrunch , The Financial Times, Yahoo Finance and others. His blog, JamesAltucher.com, has attracted more than 20 million readers since its launch in 2010. He hosts a successful podcast, "The James Altucher Show" with guests of the caliber of Tony Robbins, Mark Cuban, Pieter Thiel, Arianna Huffington, Coolio, etc. His podcasts have had over 30 million downloads. Join him at JamesAltucher.com or on Twitter @Jaltucher on Instagram @altucher You can also text him questions on his personal cell phone (203) 512-2161 00:00:00 Intro 00:06:24 How do you keep motivated to do 10,000 experiments during the slow start? 00:07:48 How to hack the 10,000 rule to become great at almost anything. 00:33:11 The Michelson Morley Experiment Example: How it changed physics. 00:10:10 Why should experiments have high stakes? Being fearless! 00:14:09 An experiment in writing: Buying Greenland. 00:17:20 Experimentation pushes the limits of your knowledge. 00:21:20 Examples from games - Chess. 00:23:29 The 200 Experiment "rule". 00:25:11 The Plus-Minus-Equals method. The Spoke and Wheel Method. 00:27:31 Brian's Galileo Experiment. 00:33:47 The pajama experiment. 00:34:38 Applications to risk management and resiliency. 00:36:47 The Spoke and Wheel Method. 00:41:38 The one experiment that changed James Altucher's life forever. Overcoming the fear of failure. 00:53:41 Will there be a creator economy? Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating And please join my mailing list to get resources and enter giveaways to win a FREE copy of my book (and more) http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 📝 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Any sufficient advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:07.0	All right James, we are live and we are recording. We are also live and we are
0:19.4	here to discuss this that I got multiple copies of in the mail thanks to you I'm going to get my own
0:25.0	very own copy from Amazon da Hum next week as we get everything dialed in for the launch of I think is your best book.
0:34.8	I've read them all, I've read them all and I've talked about them all.
0:38.4	I've bought them all for my friends in the progress.
0:42.0	A whole James Aldisher shelf on your in your house.
0:46.0	I do and actually the whole library here at UCSD has been converted to the Altacher
0:51.0	wing.
0:52.0	When you didn't have to donate that much,
0:54.0	that first 25 million, those 25 million Bitcoin.
0:57.0	I had to beat out Jim Simons,
1:00.0	but fortunately the price of Bitcoin wind up,
1:02.0	so that's right, because this book is nothing if not a book about
1:07.4	experiments and I am an experimental physicist as James knows we were deep involved in an experiment in exploring the universe in as many different forms,
1:17.5	exploring the biggest topics under the multiverse, the existence of God or lack thereof, the existence of other universes
1:26.9	or lack thereof.
1:28.8	And now we're talking about something a little bit more practical than those, maybe how you can exceed, how you can, as the subtitle
1:36.6	says, use 10,000 experiments to reach surprising goals and other surprising advice for reaching your goals.
1:45.4	And like all of James's book, this book, well you've got to read it with a box of Kleenex, right,
1:50.3	James, you're always writing with in mind that if the reader's not in tears of joy, pain, and self-growth, you didn't do your job, right?
2:02.0	Yeah, I mean, the thing about getting good at something that is worth getting good at it, it's
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