My Favorite Things: How To Get Everything You Want!

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James Altucher

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🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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You don't have to have good grades to get into Ivy League School, heck, you don't even need to go to college to be successful in life! In this episode, I recounted the times that I get what I wanted just to be the "Only One". To get what you want, you don't need to be the "better", you just need to be the "only one"! 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 you 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 Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook

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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.
0:13.9	I think if you did do well in high school or whatever, you'd probably do better in
0:19.4	later life to be honest.
0:20.8	Yeah, because, well, first off, I 100% agree.
0:23.8	I wish I hadn't gotten to high school or college.
0:28.2	I think the only reason, I mean, I had the option to graduate high school early because
0:33.6	I was taking a lot of summer classes at places like I would go to Duke University in the summers
0:38.4	and take college courses.
0:39.4	So I had credits.
0:40.9	They wanted me to graduate a year early, but I was just stupid.
0:44.4	I didn't do it.
0:45.4	There's so many things I didn't do because I liked a girl who didn't like me.
0:50.8	So I would stay in high school just because the girl I liked was a year younger.
0:55.3	I was in 11th grade, she was in 10th grade.
0:58.1	So I would just stay.
0:59.1	Instead of graduating 11th grade, I stayed through to 12th grade, which was a waste of time
1:02.4	for me.
1:03.4	And then another time, I got an offer, when I, this is many years later, this was 1991.
1:10.0	I was in the process of getting thrown out of graduate school and I got an offer to work
1:14.4	at IBM to work on the chess computer, Deep Blue, which ended up beating Gary Kasparovsky,
1:19.3	the first computer to beat Gary, a world chess champion.
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