My Favorite Things: How to Find Success No MATTER What Your Interest Is!

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James Altucher

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🗓️ 27 December 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This episode is complimentary to the new My Favorite Things series! Jay Yow, the Producer and Audio Engineer for The James Altucher Show, and I talked about what success is, and how do you turn your "favorite" list and passion into a road map to success. More importantly, what is the road map to success? How do you identify your "success"? If you like this episode, make sure you tweet at @jaltucher and tell me what's your road map looks like! 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 Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.8	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:16.2	So this is going to be a very special episode, a very special Christmas episode of my favorites.
0:21.3	Has nothing to do with Christmas though, it's just coming out around Christmas.
0:24.6	But a lot of times it seems like just fun.
0:27.2	Hey, I'm going to write a list of my 10 favorite sitcoms.
0:29.6	I'm going to write a list of my 10 favorite heroes or my 10 favorite entrepreneurs, my 10 favorite movies or chess openings or whatever.
0:39.8	But two things are important about each one of these episodes.
0:43.6	One is what lessons? Why are they your favorites?
0:46.1	It can't just be because I like it.
0:47.8	It's important to learn lessons from the content you consume.
0:52.4	If Barack Obama is your hero or if Richard Nixon is your hero or if Neil Armstrong is your hero or Sarah Blakely is your hero, why?
1:01.4	What did they do that really made you think, oh, that's like a compass needle that I can start moving my life towards?
1:08.1	I've never seen anybody do like what Sarah Blakely did.
1:11.0	I love this aspect of her so I'm going to start moving my life in that direction.
1:15.0	I never saw anybody do that before.
1:16.4	So what's the lessons?
1:18.6	I'll give you an example. One of my favorite movies is Shindler's List.
1:24.0	If you haven't seen it, I'll just talk about the very beginning scene.
1:26.9	There's no spoilers.
1:28.4	But Liam Neeson, who's playing Oscar Shindler, World War II is about to start.
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