Blog Category: Impression Technique

My first four books were so bad, so arrogant, PUKE! And then I wrote and published 18 books. The first six were bad. Maybe more. Maybe first eight. Life had been a straight line for me: lived in same house for 12 years. Went to good college. Went to graduate school. My therapist doesn’t agree […]

This is not the worst review I’ve ever had. One time some reviewer posted, “James Altucher is a Zionist psychopath who poses as a ‘self help’ author.” I am deeply offended by that statement. For one thing, I’m not a ‘self help’ author. I don’t give advice. I just tell my story. I tell other […]

I want there to be that moment, “and then everything in my life changed”. It always seems there’s no “right place” and “right time”. The right place is always far away. The right time was always a long time ago. I missed it. I missed her. I miss you. When Richard Branson was 27 he […]

I do standup comedy now up to six times a week. And I’m even less reluctant to write about it now than when I went up zero times a week. Because of the simple cliche: the more I DO, the less I KNOW. And sometimes it’s so painful I cry. And sometimes it’s so exhilirating […]

Katie took all of my money. And then I went broke. But that’s what friends are for. Tens years later, yesterday, we went to an advance screening of Louis CK’s new movie, “I Love You, Daddy” coming out on November 17. Louis stars, wrote, directors, produces, etc the movie. He filmed it as secretly as […]

In 1994, I was working for HBO at a low-level programming job. I had begged for the job and I wasn’t qualified but they gave it to me anyway because my boss’s boss’s boss was a fan of chess and he accidentally saw me playing in the park after I failed the interview. My job […]

  I give up. And I changed. And I wanted to immerse myself in something new. Yet again. There’s no one “ism” that will define a good life Surrendering to change, embracing it, rolling with it, understanding it, loving it, hating it, experimenting with it, mastering it, is the key to loving it. Surrendering to […]