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I was going to give the worst talk of my life. I was in Kaiserslautern, Germany for a big conference that had accepted a research paper of mine. Prakash, my professor, asked to see my slides. “This is horrible!” he said when he saw them. We found a magic marker and he started redrawing all […]

Anne’s job was to make sure I wasn’t breaking the law. I, of course, was trying to try break the law as much as possible. I was working on my 3am website in 1996 for HBO. Like, if a girl was a 15 year old runaway why should her face be blurred out? Or if […]

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 almost crushed me when he rolled over onto me. “Remember my one rule,” he said. I […]

Amazon said, “Let us know when you are next in Seattle. We want to do some stuff with you.” I had no plans to be in Seattle. Zero. So I booked my ticket and called them back. “Guess what! It turns out I’m going to be in Seattle next week.” Great! Let’s do some videos. […]

I started my first podcast “The James Altucher Show” in January 2015. I’m on around episode #220 (Tony Robbins). I started my next one “Ask Altucher” (a daily podcast) a few months later. It was me answering questions with a guest host and we ran about 300+ episodes. Then I started another one (inspired by […]

Ummm, I’m not so sure anymore. Maybe gratitude was the key they used to lock us away. To send us down the hole. Two things about gratitude and me: A) I have many things to be grateful for.  I can certainly point a finger in almost any direction in time and space and say, “he […]

When someone yells at me, I get scared. I assume I did something wrong and they are right. I tend to be a people pleaser. Which is not the best way to be. I had to figure out what kinds of people there are, how I react to them, and if there are better ways […]