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My Top 7 Rules For When Life Brings You Down
Mike Tyson woke up and nudged me. “WTF?” I said and tried to stay asleep. “James, someone on Quora is asking for the top 7 Rules.” “So?” “Listen,” he said, so softly it was like a whisper, and he...
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WordPress’s Matt Mullenweg – Do You Have Your Own Internal “Code”
I have a rule. After every podcast, I write down 10 things I learned. I don’t know if anyone else does this. Do you do this? Some people make illustrations. They send me what they’ve learned. It’s a...
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Ryan Holiday’s The Essential Question: How To Live A Good Life
I tried to ruin Ryan Holiday’s life. Fortunately, I failed. I told him to start an agency, build it up, sell it for 10 million dollars and THEN start writing books. “It’s a good thing you didn’t listen...
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15 Essential Skills They Don’t Teach You In College
This is what I wish: that my daughters don’t go to school. I offered my oldest the very prestigious “Altucher Fellowship.” Never awarded before. Only awarded to her. Basically, it says: do exactly what...
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The Ultimate Guide To Achieving Peak Performance In Life
I wanted to get better at poker. I showed up at the local underground club and within ten minutes I was out $1000 and I went home. My wife said, “Did they scam you?” My sister said, “Was it mafia?” No....
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The Power Of Idea Sex
Is Da Vinci a plagiarist? Is Andy Warhol? Is Steve Jobs? How do you take “the greatest story ever told” – a story around thousands of years and has been painted 100s of times, and make it your own?...
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Dave Asprey – 5 Hacks To Evolve Better
Dave Asprey wants to live to be 180 years old and I don’t really believe it’s possible. But I admire him for trying. I’m fine if I die tomorrow. I feel I created good kids. Mission accomplished. But,...
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How To Believe In Your Idea Enough To Take The First Step – Ryan Deiss
I remember sitting at my cubicle job looking at people wondering, “Why? Why are you here? Why are you doing this?” I asked a friend once, “Don’t you think this job is meaningless?” He said no. And then...
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How To Start Over At 40
At 40 I lost my wife, my home, and my job. And many of my friends. And I was ashamed. I didn’t want to tell people my wife had left. I didn’t want to tell people my home was for sale. And the website I...
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Do You Make Fear Decisions Or Growth Decisions?
I was afraid I was going to lose my biggest client. And my job. So I let him yell at me repeatedly. I met a friend of mine. She said, “My grandma told me there are only two types of decisions:...
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10 Things You Have To Do If You Were Fired Yesterday
I couldn’t compete with Bernie Madoff. And, because of that, I owe him a huge “thank you”. I was raising money for my fund. My neighbour said, “My boss will give you money. Come into work with me.” So...
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The 10 Most Important Aspects of Reinventing Your Life
I wanted to write the book that 20 years ago I wish I had read. That ten years ago I wish I had read. That five years ago I wish I had read. That yesterday I wanted to read. So today I published it....
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What To Do When You’re Deeply Stuck In Your Job – And Ask “How Did I Get Here?”
It’s the most commonly believed lie. It will make you lose all your money. It’ll make you wake up in your 40s or 50s and wonder what you’re going to do about retirement. It will make you develop your...
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“I’m Not Good Enough” Probably Means You Will Get Good Enough
Mike Massimino failed his PhD the first time. Failed the astronaut test the first three times. Failed to get the highest evaluation when he walked into space the first time. And almost destroyed the...
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What Are Some Of The Dark Lessons That Life Showed You
I can picture it right now: my youngest daughter will one day breathe her last breath. She will be buried. And then she will be forgotten. Or the seas will rise up and claim us all. Or most of the...
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Everything I Learnt About Investing I Learnt While Crying
A broker called up in the Fall of 1998 and suggested I buy a stock. I remember it. Intel. INTC. I had all my money in an account with him. I said, “ok”. A few minutes later he called me back and said,...
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How To Develop An Entrepreneur Mindset
After the third attempt and failure at starting a business, I said, “That’s it. I’m never doing this again! This is clearly for other people.” I hated it. But I tried again. I Had Zero Business Sense....
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Two Decisions That Can Save You Millions
What are the most useful money investment and saving tricks? I don’t know why more people don’t do this. But I can tell you how to save millions of dollars. Just two simple decisions: Don’t Buy A House...
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How To Identify Your Strengths and Weaknesses
I knew everyone’s secret crush and I wrote them down. I had a spiral bound notebook with that metal spiral that would poke out and scratch me whenever I carried it. It hurt. But that is the path a...
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Life Hack: How To Hack Your Own Life
This life hack is so easy it’s trivial. I am almost embarrassed to share it because it’s so obvious. And yet so few people do it and this one technique has made me millions of dollars. That almost...
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