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I knew when they said, “Come in for the meeting” I was dead. I said, “Can we meet at a cafe?” “No. Come in.” I was fired. And humiliated. And had to clean up and walk out. Nobody said goodbye. I had nothing to do and no plans, The guy who fired me is dead […]

Walt Disney was the stupidest person in the room. So he stood next to his brother Roy (kept Walt positive after their first business went bankrupt). He stood next to Ub Iwerks (he drew a disgusting rodent for Walt). He stood next to Margaret Winkler (the first person to buy a Disney film: Alice in […]

I helped create a brand new 18 year old today. A new adult US citizen. Happy Birthday Josie Altucher. To be fair, I’m only about 1/4 to 1/3 responsible. When you were born, I really was scared. You were this new one foot tall human moving into our apartment. You didn’t speak English and you […]

Games are like a super power. Games got me into college, got me into graduate school, got me my first job, raised me money for businesses. Taught me strategy, taught me how to handle adversity, taught me how to be deceptive. I was going to do a book: How to Win at Every Game. I […]

“I was six years old when I watched my dad executed on national TV”, Tim told me. “He was on death row.” I had given a talk the day before. During the talk I had described in detail the various ways one could kill themselves. I said, “If you point a gun at your head […]

EXTREME LISTENING I was at a dinner and someone told me, “if you are even thinking of a response while someone is talking, then you aren’t really listening.” This guy seemed smarter than me. And he seemed like a nice person. But this advice is not true. I thought about it a lot afterwards. For […]

All my life I wanted to write a book. At first I wrote four books that agents and publishers all rejected. I thought the hard part was getting a book accepted. Having someone like me. But this wasn’t the hard part at all. Anyone who is persistent will get that part done. These were the […]