Q’s from Twitter: The Advice I Give My Daughter About Purpose, Books I Re-Read, Procrastination Decoded & More
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. |
| 0:06.4 | This is the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:09.4 | Today on the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:15.2 | James Buchanan was the president before Abraham Lincoln. |
| 0:18.0 | People should know because he was one of the most important people in the world. |
| 0:22.5 | Be certainly the Civil War was critical on who was the president, right? |
| 0:27.8 | And what made you bring it up in your comedy routine? |
| 0:30.3 | Because I was making a joke about how everybody always wants to know what their purpose in life is. |
| 0:35.0 | So here's a guy who, |
| 0:37.0 | most of from an early age, |
| 0:38.2 | but his purpose in life was to lead one of the most important countries in the world. |
| 0:42.7 | And he achieved his dream. |
| 0:44.4 | He achieved his goals in life. |
| 0:46.2 | He became the... |
| 0:47.6 | Everyone when they were little kids, like I'm in a president of the United States, |
| 0:50.8 | he did it. |
| 0:51.8 | He was the one little kid who grew up and became president of the United States of America. |
| 0:56.6 | And now nobody, 150 years later... |
| 0:59.4 | Oh wow. |
| 1:00.4 | ...is interesting. |
| 1:01.4 | ...not a single person knew his name. |
| 1:03.4 | And so what my point there was, |
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