James Altucher interviews the world's leading peak performers in every area of life. But instead of giving you the typical success story, James digs deeper to find the "Choose Yourself" story - these are the moments we relate to... when someone rises up from personal struggle to reinvent themselves. The James Altucher Show brings you into the lives of peak-performers: billionaires, best-selling authors, rappers, astr
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“You had written this excellent book that so many people have loved called Love Yourself”
“and gone with the wind. As God is my witness, I will never go hungry again”
“Then Robin Sharma wrote the book The Monk Who Solders Ferrari”
“We published this book called Sign In Thrive. Which I just oh is so so crazy niche that who's ever gonna read this and then it's got sixteen hundred reviews on Amazon”
“This is an interesting one. It's the six pillars of intimacy. So this book has done incredibly well”
“We had one write one”
“It's in The you know, how to win friends and influence people, they can all right, we can pencil that in for a couple million copies a year or whatever it is”
“I've had like the book scaling up. I bought that book and then I b proceeded to buy probably a hundred or hundreds of copies for every employee that worked for me”
“His book is Sheer Will. Learning to lead when there is no path”
“His new book is inside the owner's box, and there were two things he told me that I just can't shake”
“and Joe, and it was a great book by Michael Lewis”
“David Halberstam His best book or his most well known book is the best and the brightest”
“don't sweat the small stuff, and then they then the guy wrote don't sweat the small stuff for kids”
“The four hour work week. Yeah. Which At the very beginning I look I looked at that book and I just scratched my head”
“And that's kind of the whole book. Confronting America, what has to change”
“Now, you wrote this book, Thinking in Bets, Making Smart Decisions when you don't have all the facts. Is that the subtitle? It it is the subtitle. Yes”
“You know, so the 10,000 hour rule, which is sort of not quite accurate, but popularized by Malcolm Gladwell and Outliers, says it takes 10,000 hours to reach your peak potential at something”
“Gus Hansen because that was probably the last poker book I read. He had such a great poker book where he just describes hand by hand what he situation he's in and what he's thinking”
“I'm sure you're familiar with obstacle is the way and ego is the enemy”
“He created all the Apple stores and he's the author of the new book, Shop Different”
“His new book is On the Equality of All Things, Lessons on Physics and Philosophy”
“becoming Kareem. Growing up on and off the court. really moved me”
“the autobiography of Malcolm X had such a strong influence on you”
“your experiences with Coach Wooden, who you even wrote a book about”
“Literally wrote the book. How to get rich in American history and there's A thousand”
“The first financial independent retire early book that's explicitly like formulaic. is in nineteen nineteen. But the one everybody knows about is called Your Money or Your Life. And it's by Joe Dominguez and Vicky Robbins”
“It reminds me a lot of Morgan Housel's psychology of money, and Morgan's been on this podcast as well”
“s your first book I ever read was Purple Cow, which is probably the uh many people's intro to you, which was an amazing book about marketing that still applies”
“And The thing is, as Chris Anderson pointed out in his book The long tail. benefits the person who owns the platform”
“it reminds me of your last Book which This massive, beautiful, beautiful book. And I totally forget the title. I think I have early on said Alzheimer's, but what was this might not work. This might not work. And it was just a beautiful book”
“this is you know Malcolm wrote about this in the tipping point, and it's been discussed a lot”
“I could think of other books like Free economics, or even my book Choose Yourself”
“I could think of other books like Free economics, or even my book Choose Yourself”
“that led to Steve Pressfield's The war of art, which led to the idea of the resistance”
“we're gonna talk about the Sleet Your Book. The Sleep Revolution transforming your life one night at a time”
“Your book from nineteen seventy four, The Female Woman, is on sale on Amazon for one hundred fifty six”
“cause you were on after you wrote Thrive”
“There was a book I read, Linda Opst wrote this book called Hello, he lied. And it was about writing and producing, and it was an awesome book”
“I order this book, uh just like a coffee tea, it's a big, it's a massive, it's like One inch thick of this guy's work”
“You also recently wrote the book Spaceman an astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe”
“My son gave me a a book in two tausen fourtin. Joseph Campbell's hero of Thousand Faces, and it came at a particular interesting point in my life”
“Super excited to have Tyra Banks and her mom, Carolyn London, who just wrote this excellent book called Perfect Is Boring”
“Meditation. For fidgety sceptics. uh which he wrote with uh uh Jeff Warren”
“how in Tools of the Titans, so many of the Titans he speaks to meditate”
“investigate the books of a guy named Stephen Bachelor, who would by the way make a great guest ... Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist”
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