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The Mark Divine Show

James Altucher Talks About Being an “Idea Machine”

The Mark Divine Show

Mark Divine

Self-improvement, Alternative Health, Education, Health & Fitness

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In the second part of this interview, James Altucher and the Commander talk about business and how to live minimally. James is a well-known entrepreneur, author of Reinvent Yourself, and the founder of Choose Yourself Financial. Learn how: Bitcoin has been misunderstood in the past, but is here to stay. Anything "remote" is going to be a hot idea for a business going forward. You can exercise your imagination muscle by writing down ten ideas a day -- even the bad ones. Listen to th...

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0:00.0

You can't. We're now in a world where it's possible to eliminate the gatekeepers,

0:20.4

it's possible to ignore all the worldly wisdom.

0:24.0

One of the worldly wisdom...

0:29.0

One of the things that, you know, and I think that we can all do and I've been asking my tribe as well is like to pause and reflect upon you know what things you would like to change in your personal life or what things you

0:45.5

know as a result of being locked down and some of us have more time some of us have to

0:49.8

manage our time more you know more effectively but we have more time with family members some of us you

0:56.8

know have had to go virtual with our work I mean there's a whole slew of things and

1:00.9

and you acknowledge earlier a lot of business opportunities

1:03.8

will come from that. But one of the things that I've been pondering is we have this

1:08.6

principle called the KISS principle that I've been teaching and you know from

1:11.8

my seal days where the old chief would say,

1:14.0

hey, divine, keep it simple, stupid, K-I-S-S.

1:19.0

Because any time we, you know, when I was an instant trying to plan a mission

1:22.0

and I would get all these

1:23.2

complicated ideas and put them in my flow chart just as before we use, you know, video and PowerPoint.

1:30.0

And the chief's, the old Vietnam bets were looking back they're chewing their you know they're

1:34.1

chewing and spitting in the cups or on the floor and they're just like divine you know

1:38.4

complicated gets you killed now complicated is actually simpler than complex.

1:43.0

Now we're in the world of complex, but complicated,

1:45.0

was still had kind of a linearity to it.

1:47.0

The complicated gets you kills.

1:48.0

Keep it simple.

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