Yesterday's "10 Ideas" List (Proof that BAD Ideas Lead to The Good Ideas)

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James Altucher

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🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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I get this question a lot: "Did you start coming up with ideas because you were already successful?" I'll tell you WHY they ask this. Because people think "I need to pay my bills and THEN I'll change my life." That's backwards. I was dead broke and dead lonely when I started writing 10 ideas a day. It changed my life. Even the bad ones. So I still do it. Every single day. In this episode, I sit with Steve Cohen and go over yesterday's idea list ("10 Reality TV Show Ideas"). You'll see why ideas are infinite. And how bad ideas lead to the best ideas. 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 Instagram ------------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	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.
0:15.5	Yesterday I wrote just for the fun of it 10 ideas for reality shows and some of them are
0:22.8	ridiculous.
0:23.8	Which by the way, I'm not afraid to share any idea because ideas are abundant, never feel
0:28.2	scarce about your ideas.
0:30.0	I never feel like, oh, I can't tell anybody.
0:32.6	So I just wanted to wrap this in-drupter and chief.
0:36.8	But have there been an instance where you had an idea and then you were like, shoot, that
0:40.3	was my idea.
0:41.3	Yeah.
0:42.3	And this person did it and I told them and they're making millions of dollars.
0:45.6	I never care.
0:46.6	Like for instance, now this idea I planned on purpose for it to be bad.
0:53.4	I wanted to go extreme on the bad and the humiliation.
0:58.9	But I think people would watch this in a fantasy parallel universe where this can be
1:03.4	a show.
1:04.4	So it's a billionaire is defecating.
1:07.0	Oh wow.
1:08.0	Yeah.
1:09.0	Like imagine just turning on the channel and like your favorite billionaire is you're just
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