Wisdom You'll Wish You'd Known Earlier | Kevin Kelly

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James Altucher

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4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In this insightful podcast episode, James interviews Wired editor Kevin Kelly on his latest book, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I Knew Earlier. The conversation delves into various topics such as parenting by example, the genius of being the "only" rather than the "best", and the art of honing the skill of being a friend.The conversation also explores the concept of working on ideas in 5-year segments - Kelly happens to do so against a 'doomsday clock' predicting how much longer he'll live. Bookending the interview, the two discuss Kevin's daily art project focused on creating new work each day with the assistance of conversational user interface AI and what Kevin learned about the technology's strengths and weaknesses throughout the process.Buy Kevin's new book: Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book Skip the Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where 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.------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where 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 jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Kevin Kelly is perhaps the wisest person I've ever had on this podcast.
0:12.1	And I'm sure you've heard of him in some form or the other.
0:14.5	He was the founding editor of Wired Magazine.
0:17.2	He's written a ton of books.
0:18.6	He's famous for an article he wrote.
0:20.0	I mean, he's famous for many things, but one thing that stands out is an article he wrote
0:24.4	called A Thousand True Fans.
0:26.5	The idea is that if you had a thousand true fans of what you do, you could make a living.
0:32.7	So no matter what it is, you're interested in whatever it is you're passionate about.
0:36.4	If you create content that has a thousand true fans, you will make a good living.
0:40.7	And that's all you need.
0:41.7	Better to have more, but thousand true fans, all you need.
0:45.3	I always thought I'm the founder of this quote, but I actually think now he's the founder
0:48.5	of this quote, which is better to be the only than the best.
0:51.6	And we talk about that a little on this podcast.
0:53.9	He always has such great advice in wisdom.
0:57.2	He just wrote a book called Excellent Advice for Living Wisdom.
1:01.4	I wish I had known earlier.
1:03.1	And I would say a lot of the things in his wisdom is wisdom.
1:07.1	I had wished I had known earlier.
1:09.0	This is the third time he's been on the podcast.
1:10.9	He's always so intriguing and interesting.
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